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INDEX  TO  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


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few  York,  Si 


.  HiHi.luy-,rnr.-.«..rk    .,1  tl.i'ti'v 


.-Imi.^.  vli/.i'.i:,,  Ituitjs  «-i  Luloiv.I  11 
-  ii|..r.i  11i:u-i,  t.'uir;ii!i:.i  ,  lt.i.;i.,.-  . 
i-i-,  Xi-iv  Yi.ik,  Knilroai]  Hn.l-c  uwi  tl 


.,  iici.e.ou.  Mime  on  me,  ZOZ. 

i  :."..ir  '.i.'.-..",i,„,'i'.'J37. 

s.'.:;!.'„.';!'v'>';,i.,!:i'!i;f,'sj"MU' 

'<■■'■"  \i"'.(.l'TrZ:Kh 

-'  l,",:l,l'l';,i^l"'""'  '  "'•v'"1»>''  <>t'rillsbaig,l'e 

nsyl. 

'<■'. ■■      ^..J...'tM .,1    In. 

-■|..i-.l  1  l:..,k.'i  ij-ft.il  I'nloco,  Ix>nJon,  SI. 

l.r.i|i..M  II..  OH. 

-I...U,,, .!:■..  «.    :.i,  ,     •,   ...i,i,„r-  J| ;„„.nV:.l 

700. 

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■'  ll.'-'.-.  Mi.kinu*  -I  tin-,  i*.7T. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


EDITORIALS. 

1;   Wall  Str,vt  l-i.-iH.t-  for  WW,  1  ;   A  Tnu- 

:..'.n. i-   St-i"..  1  ;    I'm    |l-.:v  \- \'..    I'r>  .-Inn-ii.  I  . 

.  |:;  :,■.!.. v.    up-m    V-  "  Li'    AtTi-r-.  ■-' :   Tu-;.(  l-> 


4li;   Tlio  President's  Spcccli 


i\.i.-.:i.-> juiul    l'1-m    "f    l;'-'i.-:uii/.iti-  it,  -.'■'■':     II..' 

|li|.l.. in-icy.    '.'!''»;      '"i      I"   -'''■  ■""  =  '.    -"',    I      '"  All 


v,-i-.itvM.   1 1-   ill."-  Hi  -■■-■   :-'--'.   ri'i 'm   i'-iiiiH  l.vtii-ir- 
iliu:ii\.::.V»'.   'Id.-  t:..|.|..i)..  i-l  :-..-  u  Sm-n,  .::>.'.;  Tliv 

I---       :T'i       \   i  ■■-■■    i ■■■■!    A:i-«-i-i-.-,l,  :!T(i;    Tin- 

l''''VM,nr',-l',rM|,',,\i'i.h-    -i.v.':i,'  ''|r..  "\1  .'.'.'■."  i  ' 
1:  '.,  i   '..    ,  :       ,i  '."■■■■    '■    »-i|l1-'V  :l"->v-'  '■■'  j 


ILI.USTKA'riCn  AKTICLKS. 


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...   i„,i,.i.-i|.;.,,   "■:;     '  ah   I.:.-.-  -.r  i-l 

,    w  ml  >h.Ti.lin.--ii].  mi  ■.:),: n  LI;  Tl..   -\.i,.- 
i. :,...!:    i.'.    i   ,-',-    ,t  i.i--. .':,..  I.    i  :.,■   \r  i 


mei-cc  at,  440;   Zoological 


'in"XTi;...""""" 


a 


I'lirllntirl  |-|rr,  (In-,  47*). 


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INDEX. 


Dj,-lon'(.Sp«chcs>,"755i  "The 


...  •,,„„..:,.  i;  I, 


■■I  II-    I ■■    i   .TW.'^.'.-'icI 


I  .'-.'■    l'-'.,Tl, .':)'..,    II-    C.'i-"'    A:;-. '■,!,'.■. ';'.T; 

M.-.I.l.;;    -1    tin-    ,,m. Ill  ;    I  .    .:..:,    I    . 

-ik.hu/  ■.IL.n  ..|  !!„•  j  i.  in  Ii  An.  iv.  -.]'i;    iiiH-nii.L'  ■■! 


ll.'-'li.'ulv   '''"'-''''"l^"''^';;   '■"■"'"•':   ■•'l'»l- 


rJIOURAl'IIICAL  SKKTUlfcS. 

m,*Xi5«luke,  402. 

'....,  I:,  v   win    ,„.i,.-. 
icruft,  George,  40. 


,.;■„■:  :  ■..•:'.. 


dorae,  s.  F.  b!,  LL-D.,  581. 


I-I-i.m.  A.I.I..: 

>1,.,M.ii1;.M1;1.,)1; 


rw?esr 


H.ll-V   lllL-   I)|.:|.|,r.l   A-ln*JI.  !"■; 

u-,\\  t.,\k' <■;'.•"  ''"'' 

lii.rh.vr.,  I- 


iking  tlie'Snow,  4 


,  /  ■.,.',..-.,„. 740. 


Lin.-!.,  .!,.-  M.rl.y.  ■M7. 
l-ove-a  Light,  632. 

M.L--     (    ....       „.,      Inr.llir     -.1 


I  Sl-ry.  Ih-,  ■■■'!,  1 


My-I.rii-.  -f  1V.>  Yuhiitin--,  tti-.  112. 
Nothing  to  Spare,' 034. 


I  ci»d  Dot  Play,"  353. 


Shilling  Stan,  3 

>■  l.ii.-t1      ...   ,:■  .  (In-,  nil 
>|.||--    .:.'.; 

Stray  letter,  a,  VJfC 


wily  >l.  .i;.-  l'l,.,'l '  u'iii.'.V , -i.iLr  .l,nc,f  :,«.i3. 
Window,  the,  163.  _ 

\  V-  -l"ii.' *i"  -\"  't  l~:  *•  ^ 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY  FOR  1866.-VOLUME  X. 


This  Number  completes  the  Tenth  Volume  of  Harper's 
Weekly.  This  has  been  a  Volume  unusually  replete  with  in- 
terest. The  Illustrations,  both  in  number  and  variety,  have 
surpassed  those  of  any  Illustrated  Periodical. 

Our  readers  need  not  be  reminded  that  the  year  now  closing 
has  been  a  period  of  great  moment  in  the  world's  history.  The 
European  Continent  has  passed  through  the  most  significant 
Revolution  of  the  last  fifty  years,  out  of  which  a  great  Protest- 
ant Power  has  come  which  rivals  even  the  Second  French  Em- 
pire. At  home,  to  the  period  of  bloody  Civil  "War  there  has 
succeeded  a  no  less  critical  period  of  Reconstruction.  The 
events  of  this  important  year,  both  Domestic  and  Foreign,  have 
been  illustrated  in  the  Weekly,  and  have  been  continually  the 
subject  of  Editorial  Comment. 


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mt^M 


mw&mSM 


THli  WM  CHATTEL. 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


ndiogs  with  unite 

sgabc 

li  liH  i.nc,- 


Doctor  Marigold  nil]  hu 
fellow-man  in  t 
dcring  tinker.      Whatcvci 
plays  upon  tlic  Christmas  bolls,  there 
:  "Peace  ( 


[Jasvary-6,  1866. 


:»wn  contributions  to  it  are 

and  delightfnj. 
Marigold. himself  is  a  character  fin. 
ished  with  great  elahoration.    He  is  a  creation 
as  positive  as  Dick  Swivellcr,  al.hoagh  r- 
"  Cheap  Jack  '  lie  is  a  type  -'  ■ 
character.     Tlic  incidents  < 
t''l'\v  I lebncss  and  freshness  and  I 

»nT;!°i.p!il,°-  ."!:i?-.'.ihen.D°t  e!">p™wd, 

■I.KK     :.ml 


-ton-  have  . 


power  which  plucks  ono  truc- 
ottt  of  the  crowd  of  figures 
I.  and  in. ikes  him  typical  und 
Dickens's  w-ay  ot  preaching 
and  vivid  portraiture 
nize  many  a  heart 


•  laics 


story 

liow  true  they  are  to  life  every  where  was 

fully  illustrated  by  an  incident  of  a  wreck 

published  on  the  vcrv  dav  the  storv 

was  issued,  and  which  might  have  been  the  mos't 

tragical  of  all  in  some  Christmas  budget. 

On  Tuesday  morning,  the  10th  of  December 

the  schooner  Eveline  BUkey  "set- sail  in  good 

cheer    from  the  Delaware  breakwater  lor  l>uw- 

tuckot,   Rhode  Island.      There  were  but  six 

board ;  Captain  Fisher,  a  young  man 

27,  and  his  wife  of  about  Mi)  years, 


n,  Loots  Talbot,  tells  t 

nesday  morning  it  began  t 

ngthc  day  the  gale  increased.     At  owning 

J-"!"-""   r'"»l.K  Hmug osaw  ,l„.  Highland 

l.i.  In  ,.|  .Vm.h  Honk.  biitTu.u,.n-  thinks  the  y 
"iio  lights  in  houses  on  the  shore.  It  was 
the,,  .,,.,„„„:  i,„„i  :,„u  blowing  „  hurricane. 

lkoi    sounded   and    found    ,|,cv  wore  dr g 

last  "li  -la.iv,  sj.ito  o!  all  ,|.,.,,-  ,.i|.„-i,  ,„  I,,.,.,", 
•--useless  in  the  storm  which 
d  the  waves  dashed  over 
nd  into  the  cabin.  In  the  total 
d. H..U. -..  tiny  I, caul  r lie  roaring  of  the  break- 
er-, and  found  the  vessel  to  be  fast  filling. 
Ilie>  mod  :l.e  |.nin|.s  and  K-t  go  both  anchors. 

'" ■Ii.iniierilr.igc.-.!  thorn  instantly,  and TaL- 

ii'-r  looked  about  lor  something  to  make  a  raft. 

than  kiue-ileep  with  water  at  the  time,  and 
there  I  saw  poor  Mis.  Fisii,.,,  sending  quietly 
m  the  water."     She  turned  to  him  and  said 

I "•'■       '  wonder  il  nn  hn-l,auil  I »,  t|,„! 

I  o.in  hero  ■/■■     Taluot  lilted  her  in  his  arms 

d  placed  her  in  a  hunk  high  out  of  the  water. 

icn  he  went  up  and  lashed  himself  into  the 
l"ie  iiggni".  ulnlc  Captain  I'isiier,  wrapping 
his  wife  in  a  huge  coat,  lashed  her  into  the 
rigging.  The  schooner  struck.  Every- 
thing  nas  swept  iiu-iiy.     The  foremast  went 

ward  the  mainmast  went  ;   l,„i  Taluot  thinks 

""■  '"'I'tai"  » is  wife  jumped  into  the  sea 

bolore  the  mast  toll;  1  ho  hoard  the  cries  of 

er  in  the  water.     They  had  been 
months  married.     The  captBin  was 

s  aalhot.  But  tho  next 
morning  ihedead  hod,  of  ,!„.  Wide  mis  thrown 
a-lmre  „|,on  the  bo.nl,.  On  her  right  hand 
was  a  kid  glove  lined  with  roll  wool  to  protect 
the  frost,  and  her  clothes  were  torn 
to  shreds  by  the  furious  waves.  The  body  of 
her  husband  had  not  been  recovered. 

In  the  pleasant  Christmas  season,  as  we  read 
this  sad  story,  the  bravo  old  words  of  Sir  Hum- 
Miiir.v  <i  n.ni.itr  arc  heard  again.  It  was  three 
hundred  years  ago,   in 


rcntng,  that  the 
it  seen  off  New- 
they  had  disap- 


OUR  DUTY  TO  THE  FREED1IEN. 

That  the  people  of  tho  late  rebel  States  will 

:idence  of  justice  and  . 

lave  no  doubt.     But  General 

General   Grant   and   General 

of  opinion  that  for  some  time 

tho  Ntitionol-Govcrnment  must  directly  see 

.  the  freedmen  are  protected  in  every  per- 


To  leave  the  freedmen  at  once  in  the  abso- 
lute control  of  the  late  rebel  population  at  the 
"  '  :  a  crime  which  would  forever 
the  United  States.     Whatever 
the   good  intentions  of  large  classes  of  that 
population  may  be,  we  all  know  too  well  what 
he  ituiticdi.iio  resuhs  of  such  a  jjoliov  Mould 
le.    We  sec  il  already  in  North  Carolina.     In 
that  Stale  a  negro  wa.  lately  convicted  of  some 
trilling     .louse,  and  was  sentenced  to  slavery 
a-ding  of  the  Con- 
its  the  enormity. 
i'ln.li-lov  fi.ll  ,„  mg  tho  old  phraseology  of  laws 
in  an  cniirelv  ditleient  condition  of  affairs  the 
ndinent  forbids  slavery  except  as  a  pnn- 
Nothing  is  easier  than  to 


Janttabt  6,  1866.] 


erect  vagrancy  into  a  crime ;  then,  by  refusing  | 
to  emplov  the  negroes,  to  compel  (heir  vagran-  ' 
cy  ;  then  to  sell  them  into  slavery  for  a  longer  I 
or  shorter  temi. 

This  is  hut  fin  illustration  of  tho  foul  play  t 
which  the  freedmen  will  be  exposed  in  the  al 
senco  of  the  national  protection.  And  there 
no  excuse  whatever  for  leaving  them  to  such 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


Minister  of  Public 

:  figures,  ami  he  ha-  i-uYiv 

v.ilue  of  L'tui  iViiiu-s  to  he 


ing  patience  of  their 

fidelity  to  ns 

repelled  their  rn*«"r 

B'  falsehoods  m 

pie,  derided  as  apes 

and  Created  1 

friendship — how  thej 

soldiers,  who  connte 

surely  as  they  thems 

.  .     .. 

upon  the  North  Star- 

threats,  torture,  and 

us,  asking  no  reward, 

!y  as  wo  trusted  in  t' 

this  unprecedented 

many  among  us  are 

deliver  them  into  the 

pitiless  hand-  t 

they  rescued  us,  and 

we  can  do  for  them 

who  despise  and  hate 

lest  the  lustro  of  ou 

victory  bo  in 

The  cause  oftheTJ 

lited  States,  si 

lining   Continental   (.'imp-ess,  i-    the 

foctod  a  plan  which,  with  a  duo  regard  to  tho 
claims  of  private  property  ami  to  the  pnl,h< 
,"m""1""-  -h.ill  limn:  the  ends  of  the  great 
■  in   togythe,  and  ivlieu*  the  honors  of  llrond- 


tluil  th. 


:  fundamental  law  of  tho  land  every  nun 
■  the  free  equal  of  every  other  man,  (no 
ave  of  Governor  Onit  of  South  Carolina 
ill  as  tho  Governor  himself;  and  we  trust 
.e  Committee  upon  Reconstruction,  look- 


.nco  of  the  Frcedmon's  n«. 

re  a  1 1  until  the  people  of  tin-  I'nited  Stare-  mo 
tiiunuighly  sati-lied  that  tlie  pei.-onal  liycdnin 
which  they  have  conferred  upon  tlie  majority 
of  the  people  of  South  Carolina,  for  instance, 
is  to  be  respected  by  tho  minority. 


At  a  late  dinner  of  American  etti/.ens  in 
Paris  at  which  Mr.  F.tci.i.ow,  tlie  Minisicr  of 
the  United  States,  and  General  Sviioinj.n 
were  present,  Mr.  Bioelow  said :  "The  policy 
of  the  American  dinveriimeiil  is  peace  with  :il| 
mankind,  and  at  the  present  moment,  ns  far  as 
tlie  eye  of  any  statesman  canpc 
iinntv,  there  is  no  probability  of 
g.n.d  relations  winch  exi-l  helwe.eii  the  United 
Siaies  and  every  other  country." 

Mr.  Bioelow  certainly  ought 


of  the  Constitution." 

This  is  what  Mr.  Ol  I 
twenty  years  ago  in  his 
foresting  "Walks  and 
Farmer  in  England."     < 


Tut)  remarked  nearly 


Shine,  ye  stare  of  heaven, 

On  a  world  of  fear  I 
See  how  Time,  avenging, 

nrin«otli  judgment  here ; 
Weaving  ill-won  honors 

To  a  liery  crown; 
Bidding  Imnl  hearts  perish, 

Casting  proud  hearts  dow 
Shine,  vo  stars  ol  heaven 


DOMESTIC   CNTELLIGENOE. 


<   only  eoutin 
ihe'Mcxic 


j  the  universal  impres- 


solved  without  war,  ascverysensd.le 
]y  hopes  it  may  lie.  But.  it  is  very  desirable  thai 
the  country  .-lion Id  know  ;i  few  detail;.  While 
we  assume  from  the  Message  of  the  Presidonl 
and  from  such  remarks  as  those  of  ottr  French 
Miui-ter  that  ncgiuiatjims  are  pending,  it  is  Very 
clear  that  the  highest,  interests  ol'  the  country 
would  gain  by  making  the  assumption  knowl- 
edge. Tho  House  of  RL-pre-enmiives,  upon 
Mr.  Stevens's  motion,  has  already  requested 
the  President,  if  not  incompatible  with  the 
public  interest,  to  communicate  all  the  inform- 
ation and  correspondence  upon  the  subject,  and 
we  hope  a  response  wil'  not  be  long  delayed.- 
Meanwhile  there  need  be  no  fear  that  the 

public  vigilance  relax.  If  there  are  those  who 
suppose  that  Louis  Napoleon  wishes  or  ex- 
pects to  remain  in  Mexico,  v.  think  they  are 
profoundly  mistaken.  He  does  not  court  war 
under  the  inevitable  conditions  of  such  a  strug- 
gle as  this  would  he.  lie  undoubtedly  wi-he- 
to  get  out  of  the  scrape,  and  our  true  policy  i- 
t"  help  him  out,  not  to  threaten  to  kick  him 
out.  A  peremptory  threat  from  the  United 
State-;  would  make  France,  which  now  sneers 
at  the  Mexican  expedition,  eutlui.-ia-lically 
united  in  supporting  it  af  all  hazards.  Now, 
of  course,  if  it  were  necessary,  the  United 
States  are  ready  and  able  to 'encounter  the 
whole  of  Europe  enthusiastically  hostile.  But, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  it  is  not  necessary.  Pa- 
tience, common  sen-e,  and  the  President's  re- 
sponse to  Congress,  will  cany  us  through. 


TAUGHT  BY  OUR  NEK JIIl'.ojJS. 


men,  21  years  old,  b-t  can  neithei 
in  other  departments  the  numt 
CG  to  62  out  of  every  hundred. 


iMeu 


Bas-PJiin  there  are  but  four  or  five 
young  conscripts  who  can  not  read.  In  the 
Hautc-Marne  but  three  or  four.  In  the  Meuse 
and  the  Doubs  but  two  or  three.  There  are 
86  departments  in  all,  and  Paris  is  in  that  of 
the  Seine.  Strasbourg  is  in  the  Bas-Rkin,  and 
Besancon  in  the  Doubs. 


A  Virginia  landholder  lately  said  to  a  friend 
of  ours  in  Richmond,  "I  own  three  thou- 
sand acres  of  land,  but  I  have  no  money  tr 
work  it  with.     I  want  to  sell  half  of  it,  and  I 

Ih.uU  like  nothing 
company  of  Vermon 
sell  was  natural  under  the  circumstances,  and 

the  disposition  to  welcome  Vermontc; 

with    what  common  sense.   I  he  geull 

eepted   I  he  situation.      For  it  is  by  a 

migration  and  social  and  industr 

that  the  hostility  springing  from  separation  ami 

ignorance  will  be  removci 

We  propose  to  publish  a  series  of  carefully 


'   the  Southern  i 


,  begin 


Weekly, 

industrial  statistics,  that  the  general  charnctcr 
and  special  advantages  of  the  Southern  part  of 
the  country  may  be  understood  by  those  who 
are  thinking  of  settling  thcro.  There  is,  for 
instance,  no  nobler  State  in  the  world  probably 
than  Virginia.  Her  climate,  her  resources,  her 
variety  of  surface,  aro  unsurpassed.  And  now 
that  tho  system  of  labor  which  has  blighted  her 
is  removed,  there  is  no  reason  to  doubt  that  she 
will  reach  a  prosperity  proportioned  to  her  ad- 
vantages. And  each  State  has  its  special  at- 
tractions. Knowledge,  knowledge,  knowledge 
— that  is  the  key  with  which  the  golden  treas- 
ury of  the  Future  is  to  bo  unlocked;  and  wc 
shall  do  what  we  ran  to  put  it  into  the  hands 
Of  every  body  in  this  country  who  can  read. 


THE  RELIEF  OF  BROADWAY. 
The  pressure  of  travel  upon  Broadway  in 
the  city  of  New  York  is  such  that  some  'method 
must  certainly  he  devised  for  its  relief.  Tho 
question  is  not  purely  local.  Every  part  of  the 
country  and  every  citizen  has  a  peculiar  inter- 
est in  the  great  city  and  all  its  conveniences  of 
transport,  traffic,  and  amusement.  The  street 
railways  have  been  all  successful.  But  they 
are  not  adequate  to  the  increasing  demand. 
The  cars  are  crowded  to  the  utmost  discomfort 
They  run  as  often  as  safety 
will  permit.  But  still  the 
throng  increases,  and  new  difficulties  require 
new  solutions.  What  shall  they  ho?  How 
shall  Broadway  be  relieved? 

The  project  which  is  at  this  moment  most 
widely  discussed  is  an  underground  railroad. 
The  enterprise  is  not  original  to  the  Yankee 
genius.  It  has  been  tried,  and  with  striking, 
success,  in  London,  and  a  Company  has  been 
already  formed  in  New  York  which  applied  for 
authority  to  the  last  Legislature,  which  passed 

bill.     The  Governor,  for  sufficient  reasons  as 

seems  to  us,  vetoed  the  bill. 

Bat  the  Governor  did  not  express  any  hos- 
tility to  the  proposit" 


l:.,1;;.,,:: 


mKKK.v    ..i:ux 


i  entertains  any. 


of  monopoly  and  of  loosely-guard- 
ed discretionary  power.  A  railroad  of  the  kind 
contemplated  could  hardly  fail,  upon  perfectly 
just  conditions,  to  be  very  profitable ;  and  wc 
shall  gladly  record  that  some  Company  has  per- 


sJIIMV;  STARS. 

Shim;,  yd  (-tan  of  heaven. 


iinne,  ye  stars  ol  neavei 
On  llic  rolling  years! 

lee  how  Time,  consoling' 
Dried  tne  saddest  I 


HAJtPEK'S  WEEKLY. 


[January 


Jant-ary  6, 1866.] 


HARPERS  WEEKLY. 


THE  BRITISH  STEAMER  "BULLDOG"  IN   GQSXUOC  WITH 


AKD  GUN-BOATS  AT 


CAM  UAVI'lEX,  Ol-icmshi:  as,  1*«'.5.— [Sbk  1'auk  14.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Jakuaby  G,  I860. 


NOT  TO  BE  TAKEN  FOR  GRANTED. 


]'r:i: 

lirll 

on  the  sofa,  and  Su 

annali  laid 

■dilate,  I  er. 

my 

.killer's  office,  and  ra 

.Jang  soitlv 

indy 

iry  sad. 

"Fa 

I  asked,   "what  is 

"Eu 

lie  whispered  very 

v.ill  l,.| 

i 

ag   hisiurv 

y  word  ofw  Inch  rcmo 

"<■".'--''■!"" 

;nd  made  th< 
led  life.     The  end 


iio'liad'h 

, -ante 

-  lying  -1 


gazed  ujion  me  with  his  keen  gray  eves,  until  1 
was  abashed,  and  a  tear  or  two  rolled  down  my 
cheeks  in  spite  of  myself,  for  my  heart  was  very 


\\  la: 


a. .Iked    a,-. 


any.,-  ,l,e 


to  had  been  at  no  time  used  to  he  fondled  thus, 
en  by  my  father,  sat  there  uncomfortably. 
"  Well,  my  pretty  one,"  said  myuncle,  "what 
your  errand  and  rcpiest  to  me?     Upon  my 

a!,  I  t.  ,1  r,     ,!y  a,  pr.uin-e  th,  ,    am    tlinia." 
As  he  spake,  I  bethought  me  of  King  Herod, 
d  the  sinful  dancing-girl,  and  nty  heart  sans 


I'.-thcr  llie.pi 


:;::;'c: 


was  threatened  wit 
tone  to  befriend  bin 

make  a  bargain  with  yon  arid 
olo  away  my  favorite  si, 

I'm  a  rich  man.  If  yo 
tp  to, me,  keeping  no  cla 
icvcr  sceiDg  your  face  as 
in  I  will  pay  nil  his  de 


niigliters.     I  will 
i.iniiy  iiiiuie  up 


is  plain,    lie  is  u  good  man,  1 

Susannah's  and  l'liscilbd.,.     \ 

street  bareheaded,  and  took  n 

away  in  thc.loy  of  being  w  ill,  1 
in.  --and  surely  ho  will  help 

"..I  he  a  eoiuton  toniv  fiuliei 

Hie  houso  is  very  diilei.ail 

my  mother's  timo.    Tho  room 

■-i-ler  had  taken  no  pride  In  1. 
To  bo  S1IIO  1  >ri,cill„  is  la- 1 

brethren,  who  dwells  in  Won 

pie  olton  care  for,  ina id,  , 

worldly  show.     She  also  disph 

she  had  been  preparing  lor  he, 

th  him.    God  helping 


■'  '"'"  "'J'  lather.  1 r-ss  prospcicil  : 

I'lisM  i  colored,  I. in  .Sii.auuah  Ulte: 
leap  groan.  wl.„  h  .,  ;,s  answer  enough 
iia.rmug  1  unpaeked  In.  Hunk,  ana  ,., 


nd  now  she  is  si 
a  silver  thread  . 


ill  Lethal  of  Brother  S.hiiiali', 
Nov.  ;i.  Only  two  days  at  hoi 


clenched  fist  upon   the  dresser,  \ 

"Miss,"  ho  said,   "don't  you 
about;  and  if  any  body  else  should 

Woodbury.    I'myourni.in  li 


Tan'.by— " 

suddenly  and  his  face  grew  a  liti'le  n, 
ho  I aoked  up  again  to  tho  ceding.    S 


1  .S.  I  dreamed  that  the  settlement   was   in- 

.1.0  insisted  upon  becoming  our  pastor. 

November  10.  I  have  been  a  journey  of  fifty 
nilcs,  one  hnlf  or  it  by  stage-coach.  I  learned 
ar  the  first  time  that  my  mother's  brother,  n 
mildly  rich  man,  dwells  fifteen  miles  beyond 


...in.  i, 
l.h-.-ine-  ; 


forlorn  hope  that  our 
be  inclined  to  help  us  in 
.  I  wont  forth  with  his 
on  my  errand.    Brother 

see  Priscilla  yesterday, 
it  ion,  and  saw  mo  safely 


limbic, I   great!.-  a- 


the  gray  gloom  of  the  November  day.    It  was 
already  afternoon  ;  and  a  tall  fine-looking  old 


ai  a  daarled  old  lady,  w  la.  lift,  ,1  her  forefinger 
nlh  a  gesture  of  silence,  ami  beckoned  mo  to 
ate  a  seal  near  the  lire.     I  obeyed,  aud  present- 


dnnMun-l)  at  the  many  slips  . ,1  paper 

1.     .Many  time.  J  li.ui  di.-wn  a  let  ii 

Hal   bill    .ague  counsel  and  comfort. 

dwcll'in  h'i?la','u'.( 

dm.  mention!  again,  and  the  words 

;,e'ru 


poor  people,"  I  stammered, 
i  a  winter's  night  as  this,"  he  s 


with  a  chad,  were  already  seated  on  the  top  of 
the  coach,  and  I  quickly  followed  them.  My  seat 
was  the  outer  one,  and  hung  over  the  wheels. 
I  he  darkness  was  so  dense  that  the  fitful  glim- 
mer of  the  coaeh-lamps  upon  the  leafless  hedge- 
rows was  the  only  light  to  be  seen.  All  else  was 
black,  pitchy  night.  I  could  think  of  nothing 
but  my  father,  and  the  jail  opening  to  imprison 
him.     Presently  I  felt  a  hand  laid  firmly  ou  toy 


a  so  miserable,"  1  subbed,  all  mv. 
*  down;  and  in  the  darkness*  I 
in  my  hands,  and  wept  silent!' 


"Brother. 'I  said— forinihclaikm-s  I  eollld 
rail  liiia  so  again.  ■  I  aril  onlv  ja-1  ,  ..me  home 
li'aa  .ehu.,1.  and  I  haw  ...a  learn'., 1  ilia  way- and 
troubles  of  the  world  yet." 

saw  you   lean  year   head  upon  Man    hands  and 
weep.     Can  I  be  of  any  help  to  you  ?" 

"No,"I  replied  :  the  sorrow  belongs  to  me 
only,  and  to  my  house." 


night  have  fallen  ;  and  so  tin 
ighi  we  rode  on  to  Woodbury. 
Brother  More  wi 


■  : 


black 

'  .rnea  me  awny,  scarcely  gi.  ing  me 

lae  in  llalnad.  vie,  stuu.l  I, a, king  all- 
ele ;  when  I  odd  bin,  "I  an  lailuie. 
uglltful,  saying  little  until  I  was  in 
carriage,  v.laai  he  leaned  forward 
yd.  ■■'fell  l'riscilla  1  w  ill  come  o.cr 


leiriind  i 


lid,  "  to  temjit  a  child 
ridence  has  put  it  into 
mows  of  your  fellow- 
dd  to  them.  I  would 
>r  in  a  jnil,  than  with 


1  turned  and  lett  him,  finding  my  wa 
through  the  hall  into  tie-  deepening  twilight.  It 
was  more  than  a  mile  fu.ni  the  ullage  through 
which  the  conch  pas-cd  ;  and  the  hedge-banks 
rose  high  on  each  side  of  the  deep  lane.  Though 
I  walked  very  swiftly,  the  night  came  on  before 
I  had  proceeded  far  from  my  uncle's  house,  with 
such  thick  gloom  and  l..g  thai  I  could  almost  feel 
the  darkness.  "Be  of  good  courage,  Eunice!" 
said  I;  and  to  drive  away  ihe  fens  which  lay- 
in  wait  for  mo  if  I  yielded  but  a  little,  I  lifted 
'  began  to  siug  out'  Evening 


:  way  hclore  me,  look 
me,  ill  a  cleat  deep  neb  :-,,„-.  Ida.-  lied 
other  who  ra-aght  u-  mine-  in  the  Set- 
As  1  stopped  install:!..  i,i.  heart  k-ap- 
th  fear  and  a  strange  ei.„)i,css,  the  voice 
:  cased  -iuging  also. 

was  such  kind- 


s  ami  frankness  a 
1 1  trusted  it  at  o; 
'Wait  for  me,"  1 


to  find  my  way  to  Long- 


elorc  I  knew  not,  "arc  we  far  from  Long- 
Only  ten  minutes'  walk,"  he  answered,  in 

ke  my  arm,  and  we  shall  soon  he  there." 
my  hand  rested  on  bis  arm  lightly,  I  felt 
-,-  ,.t  gnat  support  and  protection.  As  we 
■  laai  Ihelighiedwiail,...-  ,.;  ,1  ,- village  inn, 
...bed  into  one  aliothe,  s  faces.  His  was 
ant  and  -  -lUoine,  like  some  of  the  best 
res  I  I:  r  seen.     I  do  la  t  know  why. 

though   ,.i  i:,e  Angel  Gabriel. 
iVc  arc  al  Longville,"  he  said;  "tell  me 


voice  broke  the  silciae.  a-k- 


ng  to  Woodbury  with  Priseilla,  who  wished 
to  converse  with  the  pastor  of  the  church  there, 
I  spent  the  hour  she  was  engaged  with  him  in 
fiw  oiusid'V  "r"-'0  ""' """''  ""'"'  ""lki"c  "'°'"'d 

felt  very  mournful  and'  faint-hearted,  thinking 
ol  my  poor  father.  At  last,  being  very  weary,! 
sat  down  on  the  step  at  the  gateway,  and  looked 
into  my  little  lot-huokngain.    Once  more  I  drew 

(lie  ii-i-se.  "Be  of  good  courage."  Just  then, 
Hi. alar  Mere  ami  I'ri-eill.i  appeared.  There 
Was  a  look  upon  In-  law-  which  i  disliked,  hat  f 
i.  la  inhered  that  he  was  to  he  my  sister's  hus- 
band, and  1  rose  and  offered  liini  mv  hand, 
v  ,"  I  !<■■  larked  up  ainlcr  his  ami,  his  tat  hand 
1,  ling  upon  it.  So  we  three  walked  to  and  fro 
a  d.-r  Ihe  prison  walk.  Suddenly,  in  a  garden 
-haaia-  away  beneath  us,  I  perceived  hi, a  whom 
I   call  l.alaiel  (not   knowing    any  other    name), 

wiih  a   lair  sweet-leaking  ,,a,„g   won a,   Ins 

sal".      I    could    not    reliain     from    weeping,  tor 

lla  1  :,  allans.  Brother  More  re, urinal  home 
wiih    as,  and    sent    John    Unions    away.     John 

1,'oliies  desired  lae  to  i, in  her  liiia,  v,  hiali  i  a  ill 

■as  long  as  I  live. 

Noy.L'O.  Most  miserable  day.  My  poor  father 
is  in  jail.  At  dinner-time  to-ieiv  two  ino-t  cvil- 
I. 'ol.ii. g  nan  arrcicd  him.  God  forgive  me  fur 
..-idling  lla-y  were  dead  !       Vet  my  father  spake 

very  patiently  and  gently. 
"Send  for  Brother  More,"  he  said,  after  a 

pause,  '■and  act  nceiadiag  In  his  counsel." 
So  alter  a  link    a  Idle  line  ■arrjed  hi,,,  nway 
Whatamltodof  ' 

Nov.  30.  Late  last  night  we  were  still  dis- 
coursing as  to  oar  future  plan...  lJi  is.-illa  ihiaks 
Broth,-.    More   will  hasten   ihell   linn  riage,  and 

■■"- 'I'   has  all   in.vard  a-iirauee  that  ihe  1"! 

"ill  fall  to  her  to  he  llrnlliel  Schnii.lt  s  wife. 
Sin  spa!.,-  wi-ele  ol  |I„-  duties  ,,r;,  mj..h  ,n;l,  ,  „ 
life    aed.,1  the  gi  a.e  needed  to  fulfill  then,.     But 

1  ' ''I  'leak  of  nothing  I, a,  nig  lather  Irving  to 

sleep  witliin  the  walls  of  a  jail. 

Bniilar  More  sir.  lie  think-  lie  can  see  away 
to  release  my  father,  onlv  we  are  all  In  piav  that 

"- -  Yr'"z"" t ''""■;■ ■"■  ' 

"'"   '"'■•  '  "'"  willing   i any    ilnng,  even  to 

■■■'Ilia,'-  in.--  If  into  slaverv,  as  some  of  our  hrsr 
iiiis-ioiau-ies  did  in  ila-  shiva-tiiaes  in  the  West 
Indies,  But  in  England  one  can  not  sell  one's 
self,  though  1  would  he  a  .ere  faithful  servant. 
I  want  to  get  at  once  a  sum  huge  enough  to 
pay  oar  d-lns.      Brother   More  bids  me  not  spoil 

'  '1  lei-.  I  The  daw,',,  which  my  father  was  av- 
re-l.,1.  I  made  a  la-l  appeal  to  my  uncle.     This 


awyer 


saying,  "  I 
lhis  pleas- 


January  6,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


-  Yes,  ' 


ied  sunshine  upon  my 
T  eyes  falling  foolishly 


dictated 


,1    >unr   i,,l 


hct'uro  lii-;  an^  I  heekoued  to  turn  to  r> 
fe.it,  while  I  -rood  leaning  against  my 
great  arm-chair. 

"I  have  a  hard  message  for  —  " 
briel;  "your  uncle  has 
which  musi  be  Mgned  by 
He  will  release  Mr.  Fie 
hundred  pounds  a  year  upon  him.  on  condition 
that  lie  will  retire  to  some  (imii;in  Moravian 
,  and  that  yon  will  accept  the  former 

cried  bitterly.    ''Oh!  Sir,  ought 

not'"  he  answered,  in  a  low 

,  "you  must  please  say  'no'  to 


His  voice  lingered  upon  Eunice,  ns  if  it  \\ 
no  common  name  to  him,  but  something  1 
and  pleasing.     1  never  heard  it  spoken  so  pi. 


antly  before.    After  a 
his  leave. 

"  Brother,"  I  said,  giving  him  my  hand, '  'fare- 
well." 

"I  shall  see  you  again,  Miss  Eunice,"  he  an- 

He  saw  me  again  sooner  than  he  expected, 
for  I  traveled  by  the  next  train  to  Woodbury, 
and,  as  I  left  the  dark  carriage  in  which  I  jour- 
neyed, I  saw  him  alight  from  another  part  of 
the  train,  and  at  the  same  instant  his  eyes  fell 
upon  me. 

'■'  Where  are  you  going  to  now,  Eunice  ?"  he 


It  seemed  a  plcasaniej-  grcef  nig  l  ban  if  he  had 
rnllcil  rue  Mis-,  i  told  him  I  knew  my  way  to 
the  jail,  for  that  J  hail  heeit  not  lung  ago  to  look 
at  the  outside  of  it.  I  saw  the  tears  -laud  in  his 
eye-,  hnt,  without  speaking,  !i''  drew  mv  hand 
through  hi-  arm,  ami  f  -ikuily.  hut  with' a  very 
lightened  h-'art,  walked  b>side  hiin  to  the  -rear 
portal  of  my  father's  prison. 


We    filtered    ; 


i  gray 


ast  and  his  head  bowed  down,  as  if  it 
never  he  raised  again.  I  cried  aloud, 
l  and  fi'll  on  his  neck,  and  knew  nothing 
mil    I  opened  my  eyes   iu  a  small  bare 


Afterward  Gabriel  ami  my  father  rmilbrr.'.! 
together;  hut  hel.nv  leai;;  Ihulhcr  Mure  arrived, 
whereupon  Gabriel  departed.  I! rot  her  More 
said,  solemnly :  ■ 

"That  man  i-,a  wolf  in  cheep's  clothier,  ami 
our  Eunice  is  a  tender  lamb." 

I  can  not  believe  that  Gabriel  is  a  wolf. 

the  jail,  rhe  ahu'le  of  John  Ilobins  and  his  wife, 
a  decent  Inly  woman,  So  I  can  spend  every 
day  with  my  father. 

Dec.  13.  My  father  has  been  in  prison  a  whole 
fortnight,  brother  More  went  over  to  see  l'ris- 
cilla  la-d.  night,  and  this  morning  he  is  to  lay 
before  us  his  plan  for  my  father's  release.  I 
am  going  to  meet  him  at  the  jail. 


Then  Brother  More  told  us  of  a  heavenly  vi- 
sion which  had  appeared  to  him,  directing  him 
to  break  off  his  betrothal  to  Priscilla,  and  to  take 
me — 7/ie  / — for  his  wife.  After  which  he  awoke, 
and  these  words  abode  in  his  mind,  "Tiie  dream 

"Therefore,  Eunice, "  he  said,  in  an  awful 
voice,  "do  you  and  Priscilla  see  to  it,  lest  you 
should  be  found  fighting  against  the  Lord." 

I  was  struck  dumb  as  with  a  great  shock,  but 

1   heard  him  add  these  words : 


'   pnnue-e.l 


your  lather  tree,   upon  the  dav  thai  y.m   become 

"But,"  I  said  at  last,  my  whole  heart  recoil- 
ing from  him.  "  this  would  he  a  -Inuneful  v,  r.mg 
to  i'ri-eilla.  It  can  not  he  a  vision  from  lleavn, 
but  a  delusion  and  snare.  Marry  Priscilla,  aril 
set  my  father  free?  Surely,  surely,  it  was  a 
lying  vision." 

"No,"  he  said,   fasten  in;.,'  hi-  ga/.e  upon  me; 
"I  chose  Priscilla  rashly  of  my  ov,  n  judgment. 
Therein  I  erred  ;  but  I  ha' 
her  dowry  as  a  compensate 

"Father,"  I  cried,  "surely  1  ongl have 

some  direction  al-o.  as  well  a-,  lie.  Wh\  -tn.mld 
only  lie  have  a  vision?"  Then  I  added  that  I 
would  go  home  and  ;ee  Priscilla,  and  seek  a 
sign  for  my  own  guidance. 

December  14.  Priscilla  was  ill  in  bed  when  I 
reached  home,  and  refused  to  see  me.  I  arose 
at  five  o'clock  this  morning,  and  stole,  down  imu 
the  parlor.  As  I  lighted  the  lamp,  the  parlor 
kinked  forlorn  and  de-erted,  and  \et  there'  lin- 
gered about  it  a  ghostly  feeling,  as  if  perhaps 
my  mother,  and  the  dead  children  v,  hom  I  never 
saw,  had  heen  sitting  on  the  hearlh  In  the  night, 
as  we  sat  in  the  daytime.  Mayhe  she  knew  of 
my  distress,  and  had  left  some  tokens  for  my 
comfort  and  counsel.  My  Bible  lay  upon  the 
[aide,  hnt   it   wa-  closed  ;    her  angel   linger-  had 

M 


guidi-il    ■ 


of  seeking 


I  cut  three  little  slips  of  paper  o 
and  exactly  similar— three,  though 
needed  two.     Upon  the  first  I  wrote,  "To  be 
Brother  More's  wife,"  and  upon  the  second,  "To 
be  a  Single  Sister."  The  third  lay  upon  the  desk, 


blank  and  white,  as  if  waiting  for  some  name  to 
>e  written  upon  it,  and  suddenly  all  the  chilly 
cold  of  the  winter  morning  passed  into  n  sultry 

the  frosty  air  breathe  upon  my  face.  I  said  in 
my  own  heart  I  would  leave  myself  a  chance, 


what  desolate. 
paper  I     My  he 


"chance."  So  I  laid  tho  three  slips  of  paper 
between  the  leaves  of  my  Bible,  and  sat  down 
opposite  to  them,  afraid  of  drawing  the  lot 
which  held  the  secret  of  my  future  life. 

There  was  no  mark  to  guide  mo  in  tho  choico 
of  one  slip  of  paper  from  another ;  and  I  dared 
not  stretch  out  my  hand  to  draw  ono  of  them. 
For  I  was  bound  to  abide  by  the  solemn  decision. 
It  seemed  too  horrible  to  become  Brother  More's 
wife ;  and  to  mo  the  Sisters'  Home,  where  the 
Single  Sisters  dwell,  having  all  things  in  com- 

But  if  I  should  draw  the  blank 
iirt  fluttered;  again  and  again 
my  hand,  and  withdrew  it;  un- 
til at  last  the  oil  in  the  lamp  being  spent,  its 
light  grew  dimmer  and  dimmer,  and,  fearful  of 
being  still  longer  without  guidance,  I  snatched 

only  a  glimmer   of  dying 


i  Broth- 


the  middle.  h>i 
Bible.  There 
light,  by  which  I  read  tho  words, 

That  is  the' 
three  years  ag« 

When  Susannah  came  down  stairs  and  enter-, 
cd  the  parlor,  she  found  me  sitting  before  my 
desk,  almost  in  an  idiotic  state,  with  that  miser- 
able lot  in  my  hand.    There  was  no  need  to  ex- 


;  entry  in  my  journal, 


blank,  and  the  other  inscri 
Single  Sister,"   and  she  knew   I 


slipc 


little,  and  kissing 
derness ;  and  then  she  returned  to  her  cham- 
ber, and  I  heard  her  speaking  to  Priscilla  in 
grave  and  sad  tones.  After  that,  wc  were  all 
passive;  even  Priscilla  was  stolidly  resigned. 
Brother  More  came  over,  and  Susannah  inform- 
ed him  of  tho  irrevocable  lot  which  I  had  drawn ; 
but  besought  him  to  refrain  from  seeing  me  that 
day;  and  he  left  me  alone  to  grow  somewhat 
used  to  the  sense  of  my  wretchedness. 

Early  the  next  morning  I  returned  to  Wood- 
bury; my  only  consolation  being  the  thought 
that  my  dear  father  would  be  sot  free,  and  might 
live  with  me  in  wealth  and  comfort  all  the  rest 
of  his  life.  During  the  succeeding  days  I  scarce- 
ly left  his  side,  never  suffering  Brother  More  to 
ba  alone  with  me  ;  and  morning  and  night  John 
Robins  or  his  wife  accompanied  me  to  the  gate 
of  the  jail,  and  waited  for  me  to  return  with  them 
to  their  cottage. 

My  father  was  to  be  set  free,  only  on  my  wed- 
ding-day, and  the  marriage  was  hurried  on. 
Many  of  Priscilhv's  store  of  wedding  garments 
were  suitable  for  me.     Every  horn'  brought  my 


One  morning,  in  the  glooi 
December  dawn,  I  suddenly 
path.  He  spake  rapidly  a 
scarcely  knew  what  ho  said 
falteringly : 

"I  am  going  to  be  married  to  Brother  Joshua 
More  on  New-Year's  day,  and  he  will  then  re- 


Hwilighl.nl- a 
Gabriel   in  my 

1    answered. 


smyf 


standing  before  me  in  l 


I  answered  not  a  word,  fur  I  felt  afraid  both 
of  myself  and  him,  though  1  did  not  believe  Ga- 
briel to  be  a  wolf  in  sheep's  clothing. 

"Do  you  know  who  1  am?"  he  asked. 

"No,"  I  whispered, 

said,  "and  I  have  been  brought  up  in  his  house. 
Break  off  this  wicked  marriage  with  the  fellow 
More,  and  I  will  engage  to  release  your  father. 
I  am  young,  and  can  work.  I  will  pay  your  fa- 
ther's debts." 

"It  is  impossible,"  I  replied.  "BrotherMoro 
has  had  n  heavenly  vision,  and  I  have  drawn  tho 
lot.  There  is  no  hope.  I  must  marry  him  upon 
New- Year's  day." 

Then  Gabriel  persuaded  me  to  tell  him  the 
whole  story  of  my  trouble.  He  laughed  a  little, 
and  bade  me  be  of  good  comfort;  and  I  could 
not  make  him  understand  how  impossible  it  was 
that  I  should  contend  against  the  dispensation 
of  the  lot. 

Always  when  I  was  with  my  father  I  strove 
to  conceal  my  misery,  talking  to  him  of  tho 

of  the  prison 
the  simple  hymns  which  we  had  been  wont  to 
sing  in  the  peaceful  church  nt  school  amidst  a  con- 
gregation of  serene  hearts,  and  I  strengthened 
my  own  heart  and  my  father's  by  the  recollect- 
ed counsels  of  my  dear  lost  pastor.  Thus  my 
father  guessed  little  of  my  hidden  suffering, 
looked  forward  with  hope  to    '      ' 


I    his    ,. 


.'  that  would 

■,  dwelling  in  Wood- 


me  it  was  often  thus  with  young  girls  before  their 
marriage,  but  that  I  bad  a  clear  leading;  he  also 
told  me  that  Brother  More  was  a  devout  man, 
and  I  should  soon  love  and  reverenco  him  as  my 
husband. 

At  length  the  last  day  of  the  year  came ;  a  great 
day  among  our  people,  when  we  drew  our  lot  for 

end.  °  AJMope  fled  from  'me,  if  there  ever  had 


all  day,  but  doubtless  he  was  busy  in  his  arrange- 
ments to  release  my  father.  I  was  still  linger- 
ing under  the  great  walls,  when  a  carriage  drove 
up  noiselessly  —  for  the  ground  was  sprinkled 
with  soft  snow— and  Gabriel  sprang  out,  and  al- 

"  My  dear  Eunice,"  he  said,  "you  must  come 
with  me  at  once.  Our  uncle  will"  save  you  from 
tins  hatetul  marriage." 

I  do  not  know  what  I  should  have  dono  had 
not  John  Robins  called  out.  from  the  driver's 
seat,  "All  right,  Miss  Eunice;  remember  John 


other  than  a  happy  dream,  as  wo  drove  noise- 
lessly along  snowy  roads,  with  tho  pale  wan 
light  of  the  young  moon  falling  upon  the  white 
country,  and  now  and  then  shining  upon  the  face 
of  Gabriel,  as  he  leaned  forward  from  time  to 
time  to  draw  the  wrappers  closer  round  me. 

Wo  might  have  been  three  hours  on  tho  way, 
when  we  turned  into  a  bv-road,  which  nrescn't- 


,,e]T,d      o 

d,K.r>  I  .r  i 
Gabriel 


.1  going  then  to  ) 
lightened  bean 
c,  and    entered 


could  not  set  aside  my  lot.      Su 

to  draw  a  lot  for  you,"  lie  said, 

jrrimeiU;  "what  would  my  link; 

rose-bud  say  ti 

For  I  remembered  that  I  myself  had  sought  for 

a  token ;  and 

hat  no  earthly  power  could  set 

he  heavenly  vision  also,  which 

I'.roihcr  More 

"Uncle,"    I 

said,   shuddering,   "I  have   no 

While  I  yet  wondered  at.  these  words,  I  heard 
a  sound  of  footstepiTin  tho  hall,  and  the  door 
opened,  and  my  beloved  father  stood  upon  the 
threshold,  stretching  out  his  arms  to  mc.     How 

with   a  glad  cry,  and  hid  my  faco   upon  his 

"You  are  welcome,  Mr.  Fielding,"  said  my 
uncle;  "Phil!" — it  did  now  appear  that  Ga- 
briel's name  was  Philip—"  bring  Mr.  More  this 

I  started  with  fright  and  wonder,  and  my 

father  also  looked  troubled,  and  drew  mo  nearer 
to  his  side.     Brother  More  entered  with 
ardly  and  downcast  mien,  which  made  1 


Priscilla, 

ensnared  to  change  the  name 
that  of  Eunice." 

"Then  go  and  marry  Priscilla,"  said  my  un< 
gijotbb edly.      "Philip,  take  him  away.' 


where  I  had  lived  my  quiet  and  peaceful  youth. 
Her  store  of  wedding  garments,  which  liad  been 
altered  to  fit  me,  came  in  at  last  for  Susannah, 
who  was  chosen  to  be  the  wife  of  Brother 
Schmidt,  according  to  her  inward  assurance; 
and  she  went  out  to  join  him  in  tho  West  Indies, 
from  whence  she  writes  many  happy  letters.  I 
was  troubled  for  a  time  about  my  lot,  but  cer- 
raiuU  if  Brother  .More's  vision  W 
Priscilla,  I  could  not  be  required 
Moreover,  I  never  saw  him  agai 
and  father,  who  had  never  met  before,  tormeU  a 
close  friendship,  ami  mv  ancle  would  hear  of 
nothing  but  that  we  should  dwell  together  in  his 
large  mansion,  where  I  might  be  as  a  daughter 
unto  both  of  them.  People  say  we  have  left 
the  Church  of  the  United  Brethren;  but  it  is 
not  so.     Only,  as  I  hud.  found  ono  ovil  wan 


e /einmg 

d-i-le  b>  it. 
\1\    mule 


■  itbin  it,  so  also  I  have  found  some  good  l 
Gabriel  is  not  oue  of  the  Brethren. 


HAK 


Tmrritory  w»«  moL. 


ahle  vonng  men  who  sought  the  more  promis- 

ing opportunitiLs  for  bu^ine  s  ^hich  a  now  and 

assistance       He  chartered  a  steamer   expecting 

Hire  he  was  disappointed,  and  this  candid  *o 

(ho  had  induced  ibout  "  )0  to  entu1  upon  the  ex- 

per«e\ered  in   his   undertaking      Although  ho 

take  the  transportation  of  women  on  a  larger 

scale.     He  traveled  ever  the  North,  from  Knn- 

ins  fiat  this  first  Exodfls  may  not  be  the  lest. 

EMIGRATION  TO  WASHINGTON  TERRITORY  OF  FODB  HUNDF 


:ly. 


>N  THE  STEAMER  «CONTINENTAL."H.Skitohto  bt  A.  R  Waud.J 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  6,  1866. 


THE  NEW  YEAR. 

bo  bells,  tbo  sweet-voiced  Iji 


Tlio  glass  which  huliLa  TimcV; 
Disturb  him  not,  the  graj-  Old  Yei 


dm  us  lie  deserves 


Riviere  ?    If  instead  of  doing  you  s 


Nay,  forgive  me— I  do  not  wish  to  alarm  you ; 
but  I  am  here  to-day  to  tell  you  terrible  truths, 
and  1  now  only  implore  you  to  listen  to  them  pa- 

"  I  am  mute  willing  to  hear  what  you  have  to 
say,  Mr  Trefalden,"  Miss  Riviere  replied  ,  "but 
my  faith  inyourcousin  will  not  be  easily  shaken." 

"  My  own  faith  in  liim  was  nor  easily  sliakcn," 
said  Saxon.     'Like  yourself,  I  believed  him  to 


.   I.'nn 


.  thy  coining,  glad  New  1 


HALF  A  MILLION  OF  MONEY, 


Author  of  "Baiuimia's  IJibtubi 

CHAPTER  XCIV. 

Ilr  found  hiiii-i'lf  in  a  small  outc 


ns  Mr.  Forsyth's  relative— " 

She  raised  her  eyes  to  his  face  for  the  first 
time,  faltered,  colored  crimson,  and,  after  a  mo- 


Siimhi  bowed,  profoundly. 

honor ol  being  useful  d    yuii  for  n  lew 

"Vou  never  piw  me  nnv  opporlui 

H.; miking   y..it,    Mr.  Trclnl.hm,"  .be  , 


mg   ber  h.iuds  lightly  together  in  1 


•■■  lharil.s  at   [lie   lime,  mud- 


is  self-possession  all  coming 
back  to  him  at  tho  sight  of  her  timidity.  "It 
scorns  strange  that  we  should  next  meet  in  so 
very  dihVrent.  a  place." 

"Very  strange." 

"But  I  had  so  much  difficulty  to  trace  yon 
here  that  I  began  to  rear  we  should  not  meet 

"Do  yon  come  from  Angouleme?" 

"No;  I  hnve  followed  you  from  England." 

"Indeed?     I— I  thought  you  had  perhaps 


met  Mr.  Forsvth 
"My  cousin  doe* 

France, "  replied  Saxon,  gravely. 
'-"  Nippy  ho  wiP' 


'll.ov   Imppy    be  will   he  to- 


lodge  to-night  at  the  a  liberie  in  the  village." 
♦     As  she  said  this  Mi->  Riviere,  surprised  by 
the  undemonstrative  way  m  which  Saxon   re- 
ceived her  information,  again  lifted  her  eyes  for 

« I— I  hope  there  is  nothing  the  matter,"  she 
said,  anxiously. 
Saxon  hesitated. 


-on-y  too.  "said  he;   "more  sorry  than 
reluctance  of  his  manner 

nV"«he  said,  wiili  evident 


apprehension. 

'[I  mean  that  it  grieves  mo  I 
inflict  the  paiu  which  my  intelligei 


'  give  mar  she  faltered,  looking  for  n 
«ue  white  and  seared.     The,  '   ,.n;  , 


you  would  be  indifferent  to  the  tale  I  ha™  m 
tell,  my  anxiety  would  be  at  an  end  '  „id  w 
on,  eagerly.  «  Will  you  forgive  me  if  I  ask  vou 
a  very  strange  question?"  ""-"xaskjou 

fc  "I— I  think  so." 
"Do  you  fcve  my  cousin ?" 


"Of  money?"  she  faltered.  "You  say  that 
he  has  robbed  you  of  money  ?" 

"I  trusted  him  wilh  two  millions,  and  he  has 
robbed  me  of  every  farthing,"  replied  the  young 
man,  pitilessly  direct."  "Nor  is  this  all.  He 
has  robbed  your  cousin,  Lord  Castletowers,  of 
fwenly-li\e  ll sand  pounds  inoi'O." 

"Mr.  Forsyth  does      '  ' 


t  know  Lord  Castletow 


"Mr.  ImusviIi  may  nui  know  Lord  Castletow- 
ers, but  William  Ti eta Iden— William  Trefalden, 

"William  Trehddcn  -who  is  be?" 

"William  Trefalden  is  Mr.  Forsyth— William 
Trefalden  is  my  cousin— William  Trefalden  is 
tho  man  to  whom  Miss  Riviere  was  about  to  give 
her  band  to-morrow." 

The  young  girl  half  rose  from  her  chair,  and 
Saxon  could  see  that  she  was  trembling  from 
head  to  foot. 

"  I  do  not  believe  it!"  she  exclaimed.  "It  is 
monstrous—  incredible  1" 

"What,  proof  have  you?" 
"Not  much  ;  and  yet  I  think  enough  to  con- 
vinco  you.    Do  you  know  my  cousin's  handwrit- 


Saxon  took  a  card  from  his  purse  and  laid  it 
before  her. 

"Do  you  recognize  it?" 

'■  Yes— this  is  his  hand." 
"Read  it." 

The  young  lady  read  aloud  :— "{ Mrs.  Rivftre, 
Beaufort    Villa,  Si.  John's   Wood.'      What  does 
this  mean?    We  never  lived  at  St.  John's  Wood." 
"Yet  that  is  the  address  which  William  Tre- 
falden left  at  Brudenell  Terrace  when  you  re- 
moved to  Sydenham." 
That  is  very  strange!" 
ixon  produced  a  crumpled  letter,  and  laid 
also  before  her. 

Do  you  recognize  his  handwriting  here  as 
well?" 

'  Undoubtedly.    Am  I  to  read  it  ?" 

Saxon  hesitated. 

'  it— it.  is  his  farewell  letter  to  a  poor  woman 

once  loved,"  he  said.      '-There  is  nothing  in 

hat  you  may  not  read  il  you  wi-h  it." 

vliv.  Riviere  read,  and  returned  it  in  silence. 

•You  observo  the  signature?" 


one  by  i 

s  young  man  paused,  seeing  that  i 
red.  but  grieved  also  to  see  at  i 
v  rude  a  shock  that  conviction  \ 


no  other  purpose  than  to  save  you  from  the  fate 
to  which  you  are  devoting  yourself;  and  now 
the  minutes  are  going  fast,  and  I  am  forced  to 
speak  plainly,  or  it  will  soon  be  too  late  to  speak 


MNs  Riviere  wi 
"Oh,  mother! 
1  why  are  you  no 


•  hands  despairingly. 
I"  she  cried,  piteously, 
d  tell  me  what  I  ought 


■If  William  Troteldcn  (..UI  u.u  that  i 
ir  fathers  early  friend,  Miss  Riviere, 
false  a.  Ilie  nam.'  under  which   tie  mad 


You  i 


:  know  all  that  be  did  lo  - 
know   Iuht   be  sought    us 


"Pardon  me— 1  do  know  it.  He  sought  you 
out  because!  gave  him  your  card  and  requested 
him  to  do  so.  He  bought  your  father's  paint- 
ings on  my  account  solely;  and  he  never  saw 
Mr.  Riviere  in  his  life.  I  never  meant  to  tell 
you  ;   but  this  leaves  me  no  option." 

The  young  girl  covered  her  face  with  her  hands 
ami  wept  silently.  Her  tears  went  straight  to 
Saxon's  heart.  He  felt  an  irrepressible  desire  to 
take  her  in  his  arms  aud  tell  her  tha  ' 
give  hi-  life  to  comfort  and  protect 
i)"i  daring  to  do  ibis,  he  only  said,  i 
pie,  boyish  way  ] 

"Pray  don' 


"  Because— because  I  fancy  poor  j 
happier,  and  love  each  other'  better 
people.     My  father  and  mother  were  l 


Are  you  sure  of  that?" 
Assure  as  that  I  am  the  hnppie-t  fellow  in 
"  -  tell  me,  Helen,  did  vou  nev- 
Trefalden?      Never  at  all?" 


er  care  for  Willii 

Helen  shook  her  head. 

"I  respected  him,"  she  said, 


"liur  did  you  not  love  him  a  little;" 


"Not  in  the  very  least." 

"  Think  how  lonely  I  was." 

11  That  is  true— poor  little  Helen !" 

"  And  he  loved  me.     He  was  the  only  person 

in  all  the  world  who  loved  me." 
"  Except  myself. "  * 

"Ah,  but  I  "could  not  know  that!    When  did 

you  first  begin  to  love  me,  Saxon?" 

"I  hardly  know.     I  think  ever  since  I  found 
langer  of  marrying  William  Tre- 


i  cruel  lo  you  !' 


'  Yon  see  that  you 


3  have  been  ira- 


p"M.'d  upon  t>\  :.  false  address?" 

but  I  do  not  understand—" 

;  how  it  wns  that  vou  could 
your  landlady  to  what  sea- 
going when  you  lefiSvduu- 

upon  Clovedon 

ave  been  tal 

from    Clove. Ion 


v  readied   I'adUingti 

Can  you  tell  me  why  you  have  been  taken 


from  London 

"  itol,  from  Bristol 
larking   direct  for  the   States 
Southampton  or  Liverpool?" 


l  planned  with  no  other 
affle  inquiry  and  defeat 
Jrudeuell  Terrace,  and. 


•  given,  all  I 


You  spend   a   few  days  at   an  ob- 
watering-plaee  in   the  West  "of  En-land. 

abark  in  a  merchant  steamer  plying 

dates  between  IVi-m]  and  I ;,„  ,i,-",un" 
With  what  object?— simply  that  you  may  take 
your  passage  our  to  America  from  a  French  p.u  t 
'  "  sailing  direct  limn  London.  Souil,- 
Liverpool.  In  order  to  do  this  you 
tedious  journey  aud  lose  many  days 
_  ;  while,  had  von  staried  from  l.n.r- 
pool  you  would  by  this  time  have  been  within  a 
few  hours  of  New'York.  But  then  William  Tre- 
igantic  fraud,  and  be 
r  great  En-lid.  pons 

might  be  wailing  for  him  at  every  point  from 
which  he  would  be  likely  to  escape;  but  who 
would  suspect  him  at  Bristol?  Who  would  eon- 
front  him  at  Bordeaux?  Who  would  arrest  him 
as  he  lauded,  and  say,  'Give  up  the  two  mill- 
ions you  have  stolen,  and  resign  the  lady  you 
have  wronged?'" 

Miss  Riviere  listened,  her  eyes  fixed,  her  lips 


L-cati  not  tell  you, 
have  suffered  in  the  th 
suffering  upon  you. 
■*     ■  uc  gladly  if  I 


lought  of  inflicting  i 


lh>  you  forgive  me?' 
Mill  sue  wept  on.  lie  ventured  a  little  nearer 
"I  know  how  hard  it  is,  '  he  said,  tenderly. 
"I  have  had  to  go  through  it  all.  He  was  mj 
friend,  and  I  thought  he  was  the  very  soul  of 
honor.  I  would  hardly  have  believed  it  if  ai 
angel  from  heaven  had  told  me  that  he  would  bt 


as  my  ODly  friend,"  sobbed  the 
my  only  friend  in  all  the  world!" 
cried  Saxon,  ' '  not  your  only  friend ! 


f  girl- 


Don't  say  that!     Don't  think 
look  in  my  face,  and  see  if  it  is  not  the  face" 
a  truer  man  and  a  truer  friend  than  William 
Trefalden !" 

Aud  so,  kneeling  down  beforo  her  to  bring  his 
face  upon  a  nearer  level,  the  young  man  touched 
her  bauds  timidly,  as  if  lie  would  fain  draw  them 
away,  yet  dared  not  take  them  in  his  own. 

"Do  look  at  me!"  he  pleaded.  "Only  once 
—  only  for  one  moment!" 

She  lifted  her  face,  all  pale  with  tears,  and 
glancing  at  him  shyly,  tremblingly,  like  a  fright- 
1  :  -d    .  ;.'!.;.    -..;v.     ,..m,-v!i.,i]..     ;M    i...    CVl  ..    ,..:,■■:, 

brought  the  color  back  to  her  cheek  in  a  flood 
of  sudden  scarlet. 

"Oh,  if  I  only  dared  to  tell  you!"  he  said, 
May  I?— may  I?" 


i  thee 


He  kissed 
He  leanc* 


love  you,  1 
you  forget  all  this  misery,  and  be  my  little 
My  home  is  in  Switzerland,  where  I  have 
father  who  is  a  pastor.  We  are  a  simp) 
pie,  and  we  lead  a  simple  life  among  our 
and  pastures;  but  we  are  no  traitors. 
neither  betray  our  friends  nor  deceive  th. 
love.  Tell  me,  darling,  will  you  love  me 
tie?  Will  you  come  and  live  with  me  i 
my  own  beautiful  Alps,  far.  far  away?" 

She  smiled.     He  took  that  smile  for  1 
swor,  and  kissed  the  lips  that  gave  it ;  and 
they  laughed  and  crie 


taking  a  ring  from  his 
*er  and  putting  " 

'It  is  very  beautiful,"  said  Helen.     "What 
is  u  ?— ii  crystal?" 

diamond." 

aoud !    I  did  not  think  there  were  any 
real  diamonds  in  the  world  so  large  as  that!" 

you  a  necklace  of  them,  every  one 


1  Not  they,  indeed  ;  but  I  am  the  richest  man 
the  Canton  Grisous,  and  my  wife  will  be  a 
great  lady— as  great  a  lady  as  her  grand-aunt, 
L.kIv  (.'a-iletowers." 

)o  you  know  Lady  Castletowers  ?" 
Tes;  her  son  is  my  most  intimate  friend. 
the  dearesi  k-llow  m  ibe  world.     You  will 
fond  of  him  1" 

'.  do  not  know  any  of  my  relations,"  said 
Helen,  sadly,  "  except  mv  Auut  Alethea— and 
A ■-■  does  not  love  me." 

'  She  will  find  out  that  she  loves  you  dearly 
en  youwear  your  diamonds,'  laughed  Saxon", 
arraeround  her  waist,  and  his  curls  brushing 

lelen  sighed,  and  laid  her  head  wearily  against 
shoulder. 

'Ido  not  want  Lady  Cas^towers  to  love  me," 
said  ;  "and  I  do  not  care  for  diamonds.     I 

I-  «v  were  going  to  be  poor,  Saxon." 
'Why  so,  Helen?" 


falden. 

"I  shall  not  I 

"Nay,  that  ii 

'■Indeed  I  will  not." 

"Then  I  shall  conclude  that  you  do  not  love 

"No,no!" 

"IVsuively,  yes." 

She  turned  he/  face  away,  half  crying,  half 

Happy  i 


1  you." 


laughing. 

"Vou  have  been  my  hero,"  she  whi 

day  of  our  first  meeting. 


Half  wild  i 

arms,  poured  forth  a  ihousand  follies, 
little  hands  with  kisses, 
es  the  door  opened  and 


devoured 
In  the  midst 
Mr.  Guthrie 

not   much  .-urpn— d  by  [be  spectacle  before  1 

«'I  beg  your  pardon,"  he  said.      "I  knocked 
Iwiee,  I. ni  \  on.  did    not  hear  me.     I  fear  you  do 

I.) low  how  bile  1 1  is.      The  Kt,[M\  woman  down 


CHAPTER  XCV. 


AVith  closed  windows,  lighted  lamp,  and  cur- 
iam-' jealously  drawn,  Sax.ni  Trclahb.-n  and  Mr. 
(inilnie  sat  together,  oniiunus]v  Hleut,  in  the 
larg.T  >„hn  of  the  Chateau  do  Pevrollcs.  On 
the  table  were  placed  pens,  paper,  and  ink.  The 
ante-room  was  left  in  darkne.-s,  and  ihe  loldiny- 
door.,  b.  tween  stood  a  little  apart.  All  was  very 
still— in  lite  house  no  voice,  no  fool  fall,  no  sound 
of  life;  out  of  doors,  nothing  but  the  warv 
moaning  of  the  wind,  and  the  creating  of  the 
weather-cocks  upon  the  turrets  overhead. 

They  were  wailing  u.,    A\  illiam  Trefalden. 

Miss  biei.av  had  wiili  drawn  n>  In.-r  clnmil.er. 
p:irily  (..  ,-eape  all  -i-bf.  or  hearing  of  the  eom- 
ina  int.  rview,  and  partly  to  make  such  slight 
pivpar.mon  as  might  be  neec^arv  before  leaving 


i  temporary  asyli 


the    eliareau 

volunteered 

the  family  of  an  English 

deaux.     It  was  therefore  arranged  thai 

riage  should  be  in  readiness  at  the  back 

shortly  after  seven  o'clock  ;   and  then,  a 

was  practicable,  they  were  all   three  t 


and  still  no  William  Trefalden  made  his  appear- 
Presently  the  pendule  on  tho  mantle-shelf 

Mr.  Guthrie  looked  at  his  watch.  Saxon  rose, 
went  over  to  the  nearest  window,  pushed  aside 
the  curtain,  and  looked  out.  It  was  now  dusk; 
but  there  was  still  a  pale,  lurid  gleam  upon  the 

hori/.on,  by  the   light   of  which    the  young  man 
con  lit  ,-ee  ihe  greal  clouds  rollm::  together  o\er- 

L--J   like  the  mustering  of  many  armies. 

will  be  a  wild  night,"  he  said,  as  he  re- 


plied the  clergyman. 


"Hush 

They  listened;  but 
a  foot-pace,  and  went 
at  the  back  of  the  cha 

"  It  is  only  our  own  post-chaise, "  said  Saxon. 

And  then  they  were  again  silent. 

hour  went  by,  and  the  pendule  chimed  again. 
It  was  now  half  past  seven. 

All  at  once  Saxon  held  up  his  hand,  and  bent 
his  head  attentively. 

quickly— from  the  direction  of  Bordeaux  1" 

Mr.  Guthrie  -nul-al  .louhtfulh  ;  hut  Saxon's 
iramed  ear  could  not  be  deceived.  In  another 
moment  rbe  .sound  became  fainlh  audible,  i.ben 
grew  -laditalK- louder,  and  e,.a.-.al  at  h<-r  l.cl.av 
the  gates  of  the  chateau. 


carriage  drivei 


He  is 


With  this  he  dropped  the  curtain,  and  turned 
down  the  lamp,  so  as  to  leave  the  room  in  half- 
shadow,  while  Mr.  Guthrie,  in  accordance  with 
their  preconcerted  plan,  went  out  into  the  dark 
ante-room,  and  took  up  his  station  close  against 


HARPF/R'S  'WFF-KLY. 


.dea-antly  with  the  housekeeper 


;  the  door  he  seemed 


and  came  in.     Finding 
dark,    he    deposited    something 


line  of  light  betwe 
toward  the  second 
Guthrie  softly  locked 


Wh.u- 


.     As  he  did  this  Mr. 

i  door  and  put  the  key 

Slightly  as  the  Sound  was,  the 

?"  he  said,  quickly,  and  stopped 


He  listened,  holding  his  breath  the  while; 
then  sprang  forward,  threw  the  doors  open,  and 
' '  3  adjoining  room, 
i  Saxon  turned  on  the  full  light  of 
fo  men  stood  suddenly 
each  other  face  to  face. 

it  deadly  pallor  which 
is  oorn,  not  ot  tear  out  of  hatred— spread  itself 
slowly  over  William  Trefalden's  countenance, 
and  there  remained.  No  other  sign  betrayed 
the  tumult  within.  Haughty  as  an  Indian  at 
the  stake,  he  folded  his  arms,  and  met  his  cous- 
in'-; eye  unflinchingly. 

Thus  they  stood  for  a  second  or  two,  both  si- 
lent. Then  Mr.  Guthrie  came  in  from  the  ante- 
room, shut  the  folding- doors,  and  took  his  seat 
at  the  table;  white  Saxon  resumed  his  former 
place,  and,  pointing  to  a  chair  standing  apart 
from  the  rest,  said: 

''Please  to  sit  there,  WilUam  Trefalden." 
The  lawyer,  with  a  sharp  glance  of  recogni- 
tion at  the' clergyman,  flung  himself  carelessly 


■    Star-chamber?" 


Mr.  Trefalden  --iiiik-d,  kaned  b 
chair,  and  waited  fur  what  -leadd 
lie  knew  that,  all  was  over.  Ho  kn 
fairy  gold  had  turned  to  withered 
i  paradise  of  " 


)  die  on  which  he  had 
1  reputation,  country,  personal  safety,  and 
.vliole  worldly  future,  had  turned  up  a  blank 


t  when  lie  believed 
his  own.     He  knew  that  Helen  Ri 

grace  his  home  ami  gladden  hi--  heart  with  her 
smiles;    never  learn  to  give  him  love  lor  love,  in 

knew  that  from  dins  time  forth  In-  was  a  marked 
loan,  a  branded  felon  dependent  on  the  mercy 
of  the  kinsman  whom  he  had  betrayed;  a.nd 
ret,  knowing  all  this,  his  ^df-comimmd  never 
Wavered,  his  eu1  never  quailed,  his  voice  never 
faliri-cd  for  ;ui  instant,  ile  was  desperate  ,  but 
his  pride  and  his  courage  were  at  least  equal  to 
his  despair. 


■  say  to  you,  William 
Tivi'ahkn,"  he  began  presently;  -and  what,  lit- 
tle I  have  to  say  must  be  said  briefly.  To  re- 
proach one  who  could  act  as  you  have  acted 
would  be  idle.  If  you  had  any  heart  to  be 
touched,  any  sense  of  honor  to  be  awakened. 
neither  you  nor  I  would  be  sitting  here  to- 
night." 

Still  smiling  scornfully,  (lie  lawyer  listened, 
apparently  with  the  greatest  indifference. 

"To  keep,  then,  to  plain  facts,"  continued  ihe 
young  man,  "you  have  defrauded  me  of  two 
millions  of  money  ;  Vutl  have  that  money  in  your 
possession;  you  are  at  this  moment  toy  p  isoii- 

lage  police,  and  convey  you  to  Bordeaux  in  the 
carriage  which  now  waits  below  lor  that  |.iir|io-c'. 
.Such  is  your  position,  and  such  is  mine.  But  1 
am  unwilling  to  pu-h  matters  io  extremity.  1 
am    unwilling    to   attach    public   scandal    io   the 


disgrace.     For  my  i 


;  sake  and  my  own 


at  ions  of  honest  men,  .!.  haw:  decided 
a  fair  alternative." 

He  paused  and  referred  to  a  slip  of  paper  ly- 
ing beside  him  on  the  table. 

"In  the  first  place,"  he  continued,  ■■  I  require 
yon  to  restore  the  money  of  which  you  have 
robbed  me.  In  the  second  place,  you  must  sign 
a  full  confession  .A'  your  guilt,  both  as  regards 
the  two  million-  -t..k'L>  from  myself  and  the 
twenn-tive  ibous.iud  pounds  <,f  which  vou  have 
defrauded  the  Eai  1  of  Casilehovers.  In"  (he  third 
place,  you  must  betake  youi  -ell'  to  America,  and. 
never  again  be  seen  on  this  side  the  Atlantic. 
If  you  agree  to  these  conditions,  I  consent  to 
screen  you  from  the  law,  and  uill  give  you  the 
sum  of  one  thousand  pounds  in  help  you  for- 
ward honestly  in  the  new  life  before  you." 

"And  supposing  that  T  decline  i  hi.  -onditiou-," 
said  Mr.  Trefalden,  calmly. 

"Then  I  simply  ring  ll 

who    iu-t   How   opened     file 


■What  t 


The  lawyer  ouh  eb-vated  hi-  eyebrows  in  the 
least  perceptible  degree. 

"Your  decision,  if  you  please." 

"My  decision  r~  replied  Mi.  Trefalden.  wnli 
us  much  apparent  indilfereuee  as  if  the  subject 
under  consideration  v.ere  the  bin. ling  of  a  book 
•  the  framing  of  a  picture.     "  Well — it  appears. 


ived  no  freedom  of  < 


conditions?"  -^^ 
"I  suppose  so." 
_"  Where,  then, , 


■In   the   adjoining  room.     You  have  but  to 
take  possession  of  it." 

Mr.  Guthrie  rose,  fetched  the  carpet-bag,  and 
placed  it  on  the  table.  ■ 

Your  keys,  if  you  please." 


'Yon  will  find  the  i 


;;..*. 


bole  sum  was  actually  there  represented, 

found,  after  a  very  few  minutes,  that  the 
tempt  was  fruitless.  Tlic  notes  and  specie  of- 
rod  no  difficult  it  ■,  b"t  of  notes  and  specie  there 
as,    comparative  fit    a    small    proportion, 

bile  the  bulk  of  tno  .rooty  consisted  of  seenri- 
cs  of  the  value  of  which  ho  could  form  no  opin- 
n,  and  precious  stones  which  it  would  have 
;eded  a  lapidary's  knowledgo  to  appraise. 

"I  confess,*  ho  said,  "  that  I  am  wholly  un- 
pial  to  the  task  of  verifying  this  money.  It 
;eds  a  better  man  of  business  than  myself." 

"Then  it  must  go  unverified,"  said  Saxon, 
king  up  rouleaux  and  papt 


t  prolong  this  painful  tin  c-t  igalion  beyond 
it.  We  will  go  on  to  the  declaration." 
you  will  tell  me  what  you  wish  said,  [ 
aw  it  up  for  you,"  said  Mr.  Guthrie. 
on  then  whispered  his  instructions,  and 
t  ran  swiftly  over  the  paper. 
itteu,    be    read  the   dedara- 


ions  sterling  from  my  cousin,  Saxon  Trefalden, 
of  Switzerland,  with  intent  to  defraud  him  of  the 
same;  and  I  confess  to  having  deceived  him 
with  the  belief  that  I  had  invested  it  for  Ilia  uso 
and  advantage  in  the  shares  of  a  certain  supposi- 
titious Company,  which  Company  had  no  actual 
existence,  but  was  wholly  invented  and  imagined 
by  myself  to  serve  my  own  fraudulent  ends.  I 
also  confess  to  having  invested  those  two  mill- 
ions in  such  foreign  and  other  securities  as  I 
conceived  would  turn' to  my  own  future  profit, 
and  to  having  lied  from  England  with  the  whole 
of  the  property  thus  abstracted,  intending  to  es- 
cape therewith  to  the  United  States  of  America, 
and  appropriate  the  same  to  my  own  purposes. 

"  1  likewise  confess  to  having,  two  years  since, 
received  the  sum  of  twenty-live  thousand  pounds 
from  my  client,  Gervase  Leopold  Wynncclyffc, 
Earl  of  Castlctowers,  which  sum  it  was  my  duty 
to  have  straightway  paid  over  into  the  hands  of 
Oliver  Behrens,  Esq.,  of  Bread  Street,  London, 
for  the  liquidation  of  a  mortgage  debt  contracted 
by  Lord  Castlctowers  some  four  years  previous- 
appropri- 
to  pay  only  the 


regards  the  olfense  committed  b 
cousin,  Saxon  Trefalden,  of  Swj 
regards  the  offense  committed  b 
client  the  Ear!  of  Castlctowers, 
substantially  and  absolutely  it'll 


z  .:„:. 


six& 


Guthrie,  having  read  tiieslatemetit  ill  i  ongh 
passed  it  across  the  table.  William  Ticf.ddeu 
still  leaning  back  carelessly  in  his  chair,  affectci 
to  smile  at  the  lawyer-like  way  in  which  thi 
clergyman  had  rounded  his  sentences,  hut,  a 
the  reading  proceeded,  frowned,  and  beat  hi 
heel  impatiently  upon  the  polished  floor. 

Saxon  pushed  the  inkstand  toward  him. 

"  Your  signature,"  he  said. 

The  lawyer  rose— took  up  a  pen— dipped  it  ii 
the  ink — hesitated — and  then,  with  a  suddei 
of  disdain,  flung  it  back  upon  tho  ta 


■  Vou  have  your  money,"  he  sal 
'•  What  more  can  you  want?" 
'I  require  the  evidence  of  your  guilt." 
'  I  can  not — will  not  sign  it.     Take  your  moil- 
in  Cod's  name,  and  let  me  go!" 
iaxon   rose,    pale   and  implacable;    hi-    baud 


■  Sign,  or  I  give  the  .signal." 

William  Trefalden  cast  a  hasty  glance  . 
he  room,  as  if  looking  for  some  wcu|..,ii  v. 
.ritli  to  slake  the  hatred  that  glittered  m  h  - 
hen,  muttering  a  tierce  oath  between  hi-  t 
natcbed  up  the  pen,  and,  as  it  were,  duj 
tame  into  the  paper. 

■■There,  curse  you!1' he  said,  >avugch  .     ' 

]  signature  as 


It  only  remains  for  me  to  fulfill  i»\     ... 
:  compact." 

d  he  selected  IJank  of  England  notes  to  t 


free." 

Hereupon  Mr.  Guthrie  rose,  took  the  key  from 
his  pocket,  anu  unlocked  the  outer  door.  The: 
lawyer  followed  him.      On  the  threshold  he 

"Saxon  Trefalden,"  he  said,  in  a  low,  deep, 

hate  yon.     I  hated  you  before  I  ever  beheld  von, 
and  I  have  hated  you  with  a  tenfold  hatred  from 


r  that.     Remember 


Ce'c    h.'T" 


There  waa  something  frightful  in  the  absence 

of  all  passion  and  fury,  in  the  cold,  calm,  delib- 
erale  emphasis  wilb  which  William  Trefalden  ui- 
tcrcd  tins  parting  malediction;  but  Saxon  heard 


' '  May  God  forgive  you  as  I  do !"  ho  then  said, 
devoutly.  "  May  God  in  his  infinite  mercy  for- 
give you  and  pity  you,  and  soften  your  heart, 

and  not.  visit  these  curses  upon  your  own  nnhap- 

But  William  Trefaldon  was  already  gone,  and 


HOME  AND  FOREIGN  GOSiSII 

What  a  merry  Umo  i 


"  patcrfainilloft"  settles  t 


: "! ;;..'. ...",."- .'.'.' 


■•  top  with  a  gold  and  en- 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY." 


[January  6, 1866. 


January  6,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


iern  States  is  of  [, 
page  12  a  Map  . 
mounted  by  aneml 


Governor  of  Cuba,  and  pi'uhabh 


in-   the  sTi-i.-iit-  n^nenltnr.d 
1.1k--  tui:j,v':i-rvuii-pia^- v.-hi.-li  < 


18110, 


farms,  and  10,773,027  unimproved  farm-,  valued  to- 
gether at  £100, 7ho,3n7 ;  audi  hi-  value  c.iTarm  impk- 
mentsand  machinery  iv;i-  .-r*.b'J^-">l2.  Tlic  surfarr 
has  a  uvnrrel  -lop,/  in  a.  dhvction  -mil  h  and  -oni  hwi'-t- 

of  Mexico,  and  cxh'iuiin-  lnv  'J  mi  mi!..'-  inland,  i-.  a 

sandy  c try,  with  I  mi:  h.-w  .-li-hl   rlrvalions.  ori-- 

inallycoveredwiili  pine*.      The  re^im iili  ol'tho 

Yazoo  River,  ami  between  it  ami  tin-  ,\I  i--i--ippi.  h  a 

large  tract  of  alhu  ial  land,  01  ^rat  fertility,  miLj.'.-c 
at  times  to  inundation.    The  nth. t  port  ion  n!  the  Mali: 


II,. 


Black  and  Yazoo,  running  into  the  Mi.--i-.-inpi 
River,  which  flows  along  the  entire  western  lan- 
der of  the  State.  The  surface  is  well  drained  h\ 
many  smaller  streams,   of  wliieh   the  above-inn  i- 

has  a  coast-line  of  about  7b  miles:  a  series  of  low 
sandv  inlands,  oil'  about  ten  mile-,  extend  the  en- 
tire line,  the  most  noted  of  which  are  Ship.  [ban. 
and  Cat  islands,  between  which  and  the  shore  lie-.: 
the  body  of  water  called  Mi^si.^ippi  ,-.nund.  'I'h  ■ 
population  of  the  Sta.tr  in  !*i;u  ,,-,,  ,ti],:ui.\  ,,t 
which  :'!.a;',.;mi  were  white..  ,,.;  free  colored,  and 
436,631  were  slaves.  The  following  table  show-  tin- 
white,  free  colored,  -lave,  and  ae/cnv-ale  papulation 


i     i 


Mississippi  produces  the  largest  amount  of  cotton 
of  any  other  of  the  States  of  the  Union ;  in  1860  it 
amounted  to  1,202,507  bales  of  ginned  cotton,  of 
400  pounds  each.  The  grain  crops  of  1860  consist- 
ed of— wheat,  587,925  bushels  produced;  rye, 
39,474;  Indian  corn,  29,057,682;  oats,.  221,235; 
barley,  1875;  buckwheat,  1699;  and  rice,  809,082 
pounds;  and  there  were  produced  of  pease  and 
beans  1,954,666  bushels;  Irish  potatoes,  414,320; 
sweet  potatoes,  4,500. s;;.; ,  i..bai.e-.>,  la;'.  Ml  pound-:. 
-wool,  665,959;  and  thero  were  made,  at  the  same 
period,  7262  gallons  of  wine;  butter,  5,006,610 
pounds;  cheese,  4427;  sugar,  506  hogsheads,  of 
1000  pounds  each ;  10,016  gallons  of  molasses,  and 
l  molasses.  Home-made  mnmifac- 
1at8l,3S2.l?-l.  The  livestock  in 
f  117,571  horses,  110,723  asses  and 
J  milch  cow?,  Jjv  M03  worklm::  oxen. 
and  other  cattle  416,660;  sheep,  352,632;  and 
owine,  1,532,768;— valued,  in  the  aggregate,  at 
©4JrJ3Dl,se2.  Value  of  aaimula  slaughtered, 
♦7,600,15^ 


COlftl  0) 


Manufactures.— Then 


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The  homo  of  BOSANQUET,  GIRAUD,  &  CO.,  Pari., 


THE  STOCK   COMPRISES 

\V,i.h,.,  Kim;    .,t  „illi  nl;,:Uvii.|  .  I ;  i .  t.i.--,  !■(■,,].,  i.;lV- 
Si  I    ,,l  .l,-,i,liy,, „,„!,;  i  i„...  ],,,  ;l„'|  |  .,,.',  ;',,,..  I,,  j|„' ','„''.', 


0     "     Tea  Seta— complel 
0  Gold  Vest  and  Nock  Choi 


Pin.l.Oi>ul.rnj.,ai.J„, 


:■.""■'  Silv,r  <i  ■M,t-  e 


,  Pie,  and  Fruit  Kniv 

T.ii,!c-[„h,os". .['.'.'.'.'. 
l\i!..„.„l  Kiuvc.... 


'  iliy  'i-r.iph  AH,  in,,  _,,||    -,i,  . 
LKINS  &  CO.,  659  and  560  Brood, 


!  .1  !(  |.   "'   '      i  ■!■ 'Lot:    I      , 

or-  fa  iiu,^.      Ail,],-,'.    C.  .-!.Y.\]<ll    I..  |"|.  ,', 


1  The  West  Indian  Hair  Curler," 

,:    '    TIM.    HLNn'V'lVix    u'uiV.r'rkLLM.'  ril./' 


ii""    '!','    MAK';   '  lri,'l:.wn""1    r   API'LKS 


Q->   AilifMS-fiooly  bound— tno  gilt 
'^O     |  ])  nt  I  \  n     I  I      t 

*ptJ     ,i,L.,„_f,,r  Ti'l'plh.t.^ruiilr:       liy  „ 


..i..l.li-hi„..„l.      h 
■  villi-.  N  V r, 


Pimples  on  the  Face 

V\:^j;^..  "I,.™    So   OP  ■■UPHAaPS 


PHARAOH'S    SERPENTS. 


AGENTS  ALWAYS   WAMTED. 


ARTIFICIAL,  LIMBS. 

t  7      Marka's  Patents,  wilU  Rubber 

II  -  " I-  ■■■'»'  '•    •■     A  C"M  M.J..1 

■     :,:: :': 

<£^^g^^  6i^  Bi.a.livar, 


660  Broodn-ay,  Now  Vork, 

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:,'. .''.';';",''  '■! .'.'.' i  "'  '."'■', ,'':  ■'  .'"'"■  "■'•"■ 

I  '■■!  m<  I  i.  hi    ■  bio    ■■.!■  ■  of     lid  go      ■      Irjt    watcli? 

■\    ■    ■•■■■■.  •■  i  -■" '. ■■i'.'i.'.'nu,',, ',','■','  'l  '..-  .'"\v|".' 

o-i  >.f  *'.'  f.rcv.l.  niiUoi.ry  irtici  .  ,■■!;.  r,  ,  ,  tlo- f.  |W. 


■■.■"■■Hi,-...:. -,   ,,..,    ...       | ,   ,,„ 

/■'■'•'.  """  "ii'  vulii.  -  t  ti,.  rn,ri,  y  ,,t  .i.Ji.iary  n-tt 
utendidSii  -,VhBettr  ^^  bei,can  be  exchanged  for 
™ihS^S£^eeS.ir,H0sH°^^l'°' 

p"'':;n''-;l'"»i:;iv!t;",inl'°:!"!,v'ih'^|,roI,,|,, 


From  the  Press. 


.1 ,;,;;, 


Mali     nit        i 

■    '     it     :       ,  '   ," 


l,.;;:;,:;;,i';:::;i,'Misst'»i'M83""iei'^«' 


January  6,  1866.] 


HARPERS  "WEEKLY. 


CONSTITUTION 

IPE    SYRUP, 


IODIDE  POTASSIUM, 


WILLIAM  H.  GREGG,  M.D., 

Graduate    of   the   CoUege    of  Physicians   an 

Surgoons,  Now   York,  formerly  Assistant 

Physician  in   the   BlackweU's   Island 

Hospitals,  late  Medical  Inspector 

of  the  New  York  State  Vol. 

untoor    Depots,     under 

Governor  Edwin  D. 

Constitution  Life  Syrup 

HAS  PRODUCED  A  REVOLUTION  IN  MEDICINE, 
hi therto  ™*Kem  "'"""'  inm("ble  '» lhat  many  diieaiei 


™?%I?2^ZZS!fiB%2^& £  ?«"  Cn'S  "TENT  .MPROVEr! 


Alicock's  PorOUS        I  $1,000,000  Worth 

«■**.  pJSj^  ,M .,  lhe    ^t«hesi-  fwelry^  and  Silverware. 


CURE  OF  VARICOSE  VEINS. 


CONSTITUTION    LIFE 

I -1 1 11:1'  M ATI  "ij/tiIE  BLOOD,  and 


<  ii'-;r,!,i;i]- 

r.u.r..-.,  ,,,,,,„.,, 


»lmedic„li,iu,ui,,,  m,, 
RHEUMATISM. 

^  It  there  i.,  r,i,y  ,Ii:  on,e  in  winch  the  Conbtitutio 


EVERY  MAW  HIS  OWN  PRIMTER, 

J83H«adST  pS,  oVToffl*0 1,'?-'  »'"•  *'»• 

$«:?;«, and  $71.  s'l-h./v,  ■'r',ln'iii!,'r,  11  ■'',";, «'; 

PKtss  o  mipani-,  2tl  Water  Street,  Uo.ton. 


'Viiiti, „!,...,   in,,,,;,,,.   ,.,,.,,   ;lllil. ,     ;i   ( ^    iiv 


Dyspepsia  and  Indigestion. 

lustily  iiiiiiM.ii,,,.,).      1  }„  |, .,    'ii'ulul'.iii'.nvrsm'iym!.' 


™MBOLD,Dru^l," 


HOLIDAY  PRESENT 

FIRST     PREMIUM 

IMPROVED 

CfcR    SEWING   <£C 
*U    MACHINE.    $3 

Tho  Embodiment  of  Practical  Utility 
and  Extreme  Simplicity. 


«„;'|!',v"        '  '"'"'"'•  """■|l'""iK   "I-  r..l    i'„'.Vu'', 

aYomcoraE?8"^Wy0ct2MI,AS« 


CONSTITUTION  LIFE  STHUP 


ULCERS,  PIMPLES,  BLOTCHES, 

For  all  Forms  of  Ulcerative  Diseases, 

fcatprLo^emedC  b1  T',"oat'  ToTei  sPiIlet  Forehead,  0] 
uv*i,  ,;ivi,,u  rie  to  Languor,  Dizziness, 


I  Household  Necessity  exists  for  the  Dso  of 
DURNO'S  CATARRH  SNUPP, 


111  DniK!,-i:il-\  or  y, 
Ad.l'i.-<        .JAS. 


Tin.  "'H'm  Linn  l;s  i;i„„i,  >.,„:„,.  „„i  ,  -,„  i..,,, 
PI  »W,  Ml  I.I.DI.JIXS,  I  CABINET  iii;<!a\- 

t.l,,J  [,-.  n.J  ^.i., all.ir...,,:,     I, .  ,„i   ,,;,,,.    ..;;:,'      ,'.,',", 

,ri,u., ,.,.,,,  ,  \„.  .lM!Sr,,..,,l,ii,y,  N.  y.    ,  .,  |,  ,,„, ,;,,. . 


Superfluous  Hair  Removed 

.i,,^'',"",,  '"'[." ","•■-■""'>■ ™  ,„i„,„„.,  „,„,„„, , 

.iiaii.-.r,.,';„;,.,,,,,,i,l';.:...:  \.:;"^v  KvrTn,1";;"' 


Agua  de  Magnolia. 


Constitution  Life  Symp. 

A     11  <:'■'!■  Ml  Hi  i.  .MMrinii]-  Agont.,  ill.-  Lux  , 

stands  unrivale.]  1-y  ■.,„;.  pivp^fur  j. .ri  in  ,|r-  (it, 

THE  RICH  AND  POOR 

made  thp  i  ,    s    i  , 

PURE    BLOOD 


music  omnibus: 

Poimliii    ,,ng.,,  marclm*.  ,|ukk.,t.  p,,  polkua,  . .  leuii  1„. 
,'altze-,  jiy,,   reel,,   .juudrilles,   otilli,,u„,  uitl,   c,,i|.   :m 

No. 3       «      1000    «  "      $125      ■' 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS.     Every  docriplion  ,, 
FREDERICK  BLUME,  2(IS  Lou,  ly,  AVu-  v,„i,. 


CONSTITUTION  LIFE  SYRUP 

3  THE  POOR  MAN'S  FRIEND,  AND  THE  RICH 
MAN'S  BLESSING. 

Buy  it,  Take  it,  and  be  Cored. 

WILLIAM  H.  GREGG,  M.D., 
Sole  Proprietor, 

NEW  YORK. 

>')LB  I1V  LYI'.UY  in:  \i, i. ii 


THE 

UNITED  STATES  AND  CANADA 

.MORGAN  &  ALLEN, 
OLESALE     DRUGGISTS,    AGENTS, 

Wo.  46  Cliff  Streot,  New  York. 


Make  your  own  Soap 

WITH  B.  T.  BABBITTS 

Pure  Concentrated  Potash, 

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VVntTiM  .1  ,!, .utile  the    trength  of  common  Potaab,  and 


S,66,G7,C9,C9,I0>2,oiid Vl  ivj  I,,,,.-,  .„ 


Holiday  Presents. 

MUSICAL  BOXES, 

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if:.,;,,. 


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The  Great  American  Consumptive 
Remedy. 

DR.  WM.  HALL'S 
BALSAM  FOR  THE  LUNGS 

Consumption,  Decline,  Asthma,  Bronchitis, 
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Blood,  Whooping  Cough,  Difficulty  of  Breath- 
ing, Cough,  Croup,  Infiuonza,  Phthisic,  Pom 
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$10  Mo  DotUM  Re,™,,  hollered  for  a  heller  reein,, 


"u.-i!i',"'i!i:i !?,  ",c"''!-'",'r  i'l1'11',"""  '"'"X  '■'^"ii>' """'• 

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luie,  2:"l  l.u.t  iil'l,-M,.„i,J  street. 


DON'T  BE  FOOLISH. 

cmnitof."  S™Uon°?!e™  '"™™?  C'°"'     C""  "°d 


PARLOR 
ORGANS. 


nbR&iiBdi 


x> 


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For  Bale  by  all  Draggfate.    Fifty  Cents  per  Bottle. 


toughs 


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English  Magazines,  Periodicals,  and 
•     Newspapers. 


Youth  and  Beauty  Restored 

Webster's  Vegetable  Hair  Invigoratoi 


HARPER'S 

NEW  MONTHLY  MAGAZINE 
P0R  JANUARY,  1866. 

One  Copy  for  one  Year $4  00 

'    nJ,u"    i'''"'1  '""''"''  /"'  "''."'  rh'b-  "'   lur  -o[ 


Circulation  over  100,000. 
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TEEMS 
Year  .    . 

,   M.,1,,1, 


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OTITINK. 

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IVORY  and  PEARL 


THE  DAYS 

BRASS  JEWELRY 
Are  Over. 

THE  COSMOPOLITAN 

JEWELERS'  ASSOCIATION, 

Capital,  S2, 500,000. 
Groat  One-Prico  Gold  Salo. 

Sell  iio  Brass  or  so-called  Plated 

JEWELRY. 

WARRANT  ALL  JEWELRY  GOLD, 

OR  NO  SALE. 


LADIES 

Paper  Collars 

&CUFFS. 


PATENT  REVERSIBLE 

PAPER  COLLAR  II  woLESALE&REmik 

lVMRD,387B.WAY» 


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I-uj.A, 

Enfeebled  and  Delicate  Constitutions 


i VEST  POCKET 

PISTOL, 


HELMBOLD'S  CONCENTRATED 
EXTRACT  BUCHU 

Helmbold's  Concentrated  Extract 
Sarsaparilla 

IS  THE  GC1  AT  BLOOD   l'UKIFILIt. 


Clergymen,  Teacliers,  The  Press, 


Our  Yourie:  Folks 


For  Great  Salo  of 

FRENCH  JEWELRY 

(PURE  GOLD) 
See  Advertisement  of 
BOSANQUET,  GIRAUD   &   CO. 
On  Inside 


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Vol.  X.— No.  472.] 


NEW  YORK,  SATURDAY.  JANUARY  13.  1866., 


.    ■      ..     ■ 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  13, 


EDWIN  F.  BOOTH. 

;  Fn;:i'.i:-r  IWiil,  the  irm-l  .-.-h-brat'-d  of 


01   Ihf  tine-  Ki- 


,  N,-w  Y..ik  ..(  tl-r  M.-tr litfin  '1I..-.1M 


THE  MTI  ATlo;,. 


bmr.n,  mid  I ■<■■ -ponded  Io  I 
cnlr.gi/.ing  the  noble  and 
people  of  that  State    to 


ciion  of  General  IIu.MiiiKEV8( 
indiduto,  as  Governor  of  Mis 
ib  defeat  of  the  reprcscnta 
Holdes,  as  Governor  of  N< 


•ity  and  pub- 
iing.     They 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


S.wi  iti.Av.  January  13,  1  HtiG. 


VVik  tyaltra  a  Title, 
m  Covebs  for  Binding 


it  progressed,  was  of  a.  character  which  im- 
periled his  life  had  it  been  discovered,  so  thai 
his  wife  carried  it  to  church  on  Sundays  com 


hlliiVIS   U  III)  SWIM 


pected,  In 

stilo  and  donnnt. 

[he  Ntulcs  have  necepled  1 

mendment,    have    rcpudin 

ed    their 

ave  granted  a  certain  form 

ilV   in   ll.c 

not  help 

hcmselvcs.     Or  are  we  i 

i-tuken? 

Have  Soi 

i   passed 

the  amen 

ment  heartily  and  freely 

Is  tho 

elies  be- 

I'.luimuti.f, 

tin?     Is  trade  rnpuilv  rrvii 

ng?    Is 

nake  the 

lio«t  Of  II? 

We  hop 

y  candid 

mini  miv  lliii!  there  is  nuv  proof  ot  it  ''. 

General 

Ui.-.Y.vr  reports  that  leading  men  told 

n  of  battle  was  accepted 

Imt  the  G 

no  loval 

'thought  it  practicable-  to 

vitlidluiv 

*  I..1111  the  bomb  at  preset 

."    The 

Now  we 

do  not  can  to  bo  told  a 

>ain  that 

on  of  tho  public  iniud  at 

13    IllltlU-lll 

and  to  bo  expected.     Wo 

pant   it 

freely  ;  but  that  is  i 


aturnllyaiidincveuhhhos- 

Thc  j.nliti 

ngacious  about  intrusting 

the  control  of  tho  Govern- 

cult  to  say  bow  the  Union 

majority  aga 

oinc  of  the  Slates  are  un- 

of  tho  State, 

u-iiinient  will  faro  in  hostile  hands, 
ne  difliiulties  iind  danger;,  in  i  very  pol- 
led. If  it  bo  true  that  confidence  be- 
nfidence,  it  is  no  less  true  that  party 


■t  anticipate  any  general  armed 
the  diMirt'cctcd  part  of  tho  couu- 
not  believe  that  any  attempt  will 
2store  exactly  tho  system  of  slav- 
been  abolished.  And  unquestiou- 
i  press  and  free  discussion  gradu- 
nd  immigrui  ion  turns 
of  trade  arc  revived, 
jo  slowly  stilled  and 


■  lllCS>i..-:h. 


ii'Mlly  >h->i;i:l>ing  element  at  tli 
:nhrow  oT  its  industrial  syste 
:  basis  of  its  political  system  i 
nil  its  political  heresies.  Its  i 
tion  is  a  very  largo  proportion 


II    I..:-    i:U    ■    ■inj.t.lUOIl     ti.    U1MJ1I  ■    .,;!.,,,,    ,,,■    , 

long,  consequently,  there  will  he  no 
my  or  peace. 

No  man  wiio  really  understands  the  chi 
■  of  our  Government,  and  accepts  from 
tion  the  principles  upon  which  it  is  founded, 
they  are  impressively  stated  by  Frcsid. 
iinson  in  his  Message,  can  believe  that  th 


the  present  voting  population  will,  without  fur- 
ther suggestion  from  the  National  Government 
—in  other  words,  from  the  people  of  the  United 
States— take,  within  this  generation,  the  neces- 
sary steps  to  settle  the  question  of  political 
rights  in  such  a  manner  as  to  promise  speedy 


will 


welfar 


There  is  no  occasion  for  heat  and  fury  in  the 
iscussion  of  the  question.  All  loyal  men  have 
ut  one  great  object  in  view,  and  that  is  the 
arliest  real— not  nominal  or  ceremonial— re- 
nion.     And  it  is  very  foolish  fur  i hose  who 


THE  VOTE   OF  THE   CITY  OF 
NEW  YORK. 

We  have  had  occasion  sometimes  to  speak 
of  the  rats  of  the  City  Hall,  which  gnaw  away 
the  legacies  of  widows  and  orphans,  which  prey 
upon  the  property  of  all  citizens  who  think  they 
have  any,  and  which  have  long  since  destroyed 
the  honorable  name  of  the  city  of  New  York. 
The  taxes  of  this  city  are  of  fabulous  enormity; 
its  municipal  management  is  another  name  for 
the  worst  corruption ;  its  foul  condition  at  this 

greedily  hither;  and  were  the  experiment  of 
popular  government  to  be  decided  by  its  work- 
ing in  this  city  it  would  be  called  a  failure  by 


veryt 


is  hard  to  say  whether  it  would 
me  to  a  Vigilance  Committee,  if  it 
11  lor  the  sagacious  and  timely  help 


of  iucalc 


resisted  upon  their  introdu 
thy  patriot,  Fernando  Wood,  who  mourned 
in  the  opening  war  that  he  could  not  send  arms 
to  the  rebels  with  which  to  shooi  loyal  eiii/.eiis, 
undertook  to  resist  the  law  removing  his  police, 
but  was  fortunately  not  sustained  in  his  rebell- 


:  of  the  Stfl* 


The   qu. 


the  National  Government  must 
■come?  The  vote  of  the  rest 
1862,  elected  General  Wads- 
worth  Governor  by  some  thirty  thousand, 
that  of  the  city  elected  Mr.  Horatio  Setmoub 
by  about  forty  thousand.  The  city  of  New 
York,  in  February,  1861,  would  doubtless  have 
adopted  the  Montgomery  Constitution  by  a 
largo  majority.  In  November,  1864,  it  gave 
more  than  thirty  thousand  majority  for  the 
Chicago  shamo  and  surrender  policy.  Beyond 
question  it  would  have  supported  as  warmly  a 
proposition  to  allow  the  rebel  States  to  resume 
their  relations  to  the  Union  without  a  single 
condition  j  and  out  of  its  120,000  voters  6ome 
10,000  only  could  be  persuaded  to  vote  for  a 
candidate  for  Mayor  pledged  ngainst  the  Ring, 
or  conspiracy  for  municipal  swindling. 

*  view  of  the  proverbial  corruption  and  mis- 
government  of  the  city,  and  of  its  tenacious  ad- 
herence at  the  ballot-box  to  the  party  which 


doubted  fact   that  the 


roperty  here,  such  as 

J  of  tho  city,  it  bec< 

io  city.  Why  has  i 
aispicuously  failed  h 
The  means  of  this 


.-c-iy  striking  and  significan 
le  128.000  votes  of  the  cit 
uss  die  least  intelligent  votet 


DECLARATORY  RESOLUTIONS. 

Ti 

ere  are  ce 

rtain  good 

entlemen 

nCo 

gress 

\ "''■'' 

dnfulupp 
highwayili: 

■  g  not  deel 
I    pops  C.I 

tratc 

tol,  w 

ith  "voui 

T 

ande 

por'n.ih'  ,l' 

.nail,  worse 
ring  n  disc. 

-!l.,'Vi,',' ; 

';.;: 

be  sc 

1 < 

si,  mid  ,1c 

astha 

■h  l/oneii- 

is  about  c 

i,l  n 

chtev 

us.      The. 

are  an  att 

nipt   to  ,n 

11   ronclu- 

.ills  wlneb 

,t,  only  l,e 

l.-v 

rely  expressed  after 
tion.  Thsy  are  devices  of  impatience  and  are 
very  deceptive,  except  when  they  have  the  so- 
lemnity and  force  of  great  Legislative  acts,  and 
then  they  are  meant  to  be  maintained  by  all 
means  and  at  nil  hazards. 


at  any  particular  tim 
ompelled  to  express  t 


special  proposition  i 


Congress  is  a  body  of  practical  legislators 
met  lor  deliberation  upon  the  best  methods  of 
achienn;;  L-eriiini  lesults.  It  is  not  an  arena 
for  the  assertion  of  doctrines  of  political  philos- 
ophy. Every  wise  legislator,  indeed,  will  hold 
certain  iixed  and  absolute  general  principles, 
but  the  best  application  of  them  in  legi-hntMi 
is  (he  very  point  oi  his  deliberation.  He  may 
hoiK'-ily  believe,  for  instance,  that  everj'  body 
of  sound  mint  I  amluui  certain  :i,:.e  should  vote; 
mnl  he  may  wiili  e<]iuil  hmie-tv  vote  against  a 
-peeilic  pru]1u.,ino!i  tur  securing  that  result.  To 
compel  hiin,  wiihoul  explanation  and  qualifica- 
tion, to  say  yea  or  nay  to  a  declaratory  resolu- 
tion upon  rhe  subject,  is  to  embarrass  him  need- 
peril  the  very  cause  which  the 


esolu 


Upo: 


ntryi 


HISTORY  OF  THE  GOLD  PREMIUM. 

Four  years  have  elapsed  since  the  Banks  of 
the  United  States  suspended  specie  payments. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  the  fluctuations  which 
have  taken  place  in  gold  during  that  period. 

The  suspension  took  place  mi  the  last  night 

mencement  of  the  war.  For  five  months  the 
fluctuations  in  gold  were  merely  nominal,  the 
highest  point  touched  being  io5.  Wall  Street 
speculators,  seduced  by  the  heavy  interest  ac- 
count on  sales  of  gold  on  long  sellers'  options, 

quantity  of  specie,  deliverable  within  sixty 
days,  at  a  fraction  below  the  cash  price.  Peo- 
ple generally  were  believers  in  a  short  war, 
and,  guided  by  the  experience  of  1807,  were 
Blow  to  believe  in  a  great  depreciation  of  the 
currency.     Though  the  first  Act  of  Congress 

money  became  11  law   on  ei'ih  February,  18G2, 


,  July, 


From  this  poin 
the  first  wee 

■lligence  of 


•  defeat  of  M'Clelean 


l  be  iiews  gold  rose  to 
it  reacted  in  August  to 
:  of  September  came  the 


v  io  October  to  1J7,  the  highest 
:hed.  It  reacheTto  122  on  tho 
rebels.  But  the  upward  tend- 
been  fully  established,  and  spec- 

of  1862  Bbbksidb  fought  his  un 


Januakt  13,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


lucky  battle  at*Fredericksburg,  find  gold  jump- 
ed suddenly  to  160. 

Hundreds  of  persons  were  now  interested 
in  the  rise  of  gold.  At  Washington  leading 
members  of  both  political  parties,  department 
officials,  newspaper  correspondents,  bankers, 
members  of  Congress,  loM.y  agents;,  were  all 
speculating  for  the  rise,  and  with  such  during 
and  capital  that  nothing  short  of  military  suc- 
cesses of  a  decisive  character  could  have  de- 
feated them.  The  public  temper,  from  hav- 
ing been,  in  January,  1862,  almost  unanimous 
against  an  advance  in  gold,  was  now,  in  De- 
er side.  The  premium  had  been  kept  down 
below  io5  by  the  force  of  public  opinion  in  the 
first  two  months  of  1862,  in  spite  of  prodigal 
issues  ot'pnper-monev;  in  the  lirst  two  niuuths 
of  1 863  that  same  public  opinion,  without  the 
aid  of  material  disasters,  forced  up  the  premium 


only  important  defee 
is  less  material  than 
:urred  almost  simult 


of  this  policy  gold 
Richmond  fell.  T 
of  52  points;  and  v 


only  aliou 


and  when,  a  lew  d: 
ivhole  Confederacy  collapsed  I 
Generals  surrendered,  and  t'. 
caught,  a  further  decline  < 
the  price  down  to  i  28, 


149.     For  several  months 
tlnetuated  between  i43  and 

figure.     Heavy  sales  of  sn 
Sub-Treasurer  at  New  York 

premium,  and  occasional   in 
duties  has  put  itnp.     But  i 


ivas  reali.'.od. 
premium    has 


c  of  the  speculation  was  reached 
In  four  months  gold  ban  risen 

en  too  low  in  October,  but  such 
too  rapid  to  hold.     The  iraine- 

af  the  collapse  was  the  passage 
bill  through  Congress— a  ridic- 
forbidding  loans  of  over  par  on 


withe 


tting  down  the  price.     Inflated 
ly  required  an  excuse  to  give  way 
"  red,  and  before 
Id  sold  at  1 52. 
From  that  poi 


1863. 


end  of  February 
the  decline  was  steady- 


defeat  of  Lee  at  Gettysburg,  the  capture  at 
Vicksburg,  and  the  capture  of  Fort  Wagnei 
at  Charleston.  When  the  news  of  Gillmore'j 
gallant  achievement  was  received  in  Wall  Streel 
it  was  confidently  assumed  that  Charleston  was 
"as  good  as  taken," and  that  at  last  the  rebell- 
ion had  really  received  its  death-blow.  Dur- 
ing this  period  of  six  months,  from  i5th  Feb- 
ruary to  i5th  August,  the  old  Bulls  in  gold  had 
generally  been  ruined,  and  the  Bears  had  reaped 
a  splendid  harvest. 

In  August  well-informed  persons,  who  knew 
that  the  war  was  not  over,  that  the  rebels  were 
still  full  of  fight,  and  that  the  Government 
stood  in  great  need  of  money,  becamo  large 
buyers  of  gold  and  exchange,  and  the  pre- 
mium again  began  to  advance,  until  by  New 
Year,  1864,  it  stood  at  l5o.  The  chances 
were  fair  that,  in  the  absence  of  decisive  mil- 
itary events,  the  premium  would  remain  at 
about  that  figure,  when  it  unfortunately  oc- 
curred to  Secretary  Chase  and  to  Tkaddeos 
Stevens  that  it  might  be  depressed  by  legisla- 
tion. On  the  first  suggestion  of  interfe 
with  the  trade  in  bullion  the  premium  advi 
to  160,  and  then,  in  April,  1864,  to  180. 
1  became  uneasy.     If  to  bny  gold 


lfurthc 


oue  to  exact  gold  foi 
rse,  oppose  legislatio 
1  in  gold.  And  whil 
xpansionof  thecurre 
ime,  as  the  market  s 


nciM'iiaio  new  loans  with 
drawal  of  the  currency  r< 
The  effect  of  these  nieasu 
to  depress  the  price  of  go 
currency.  How  rapid  the  depression  will  be- 
over  how  many  yoars  the  process  may  oxtend- 
how  old  we  shall  be  when  tho  last  legal  tendo 
passes  out  of  circulation— these-  are  problem 
which  depend,  for  their  solution,  on  influence 
beyond  tho  control  even  of  Secretaries  of  tin 
Treasury,  and  respecting  which  it  would  b- 
futile  even  to  hazard  a  conjecture. 


THE  LABOR  QUESTION  AT  THE 
SOUTH. 

Last  August  General  Sloccm,  then  com- 
landing  in  Mississippi,  countermanded  Pro- 
isional  Governor  Sharkey's  order  for  tho  on- 
sllment  of  the  State  militi 

General's  action  was  not  sustained,  ai 

equences  which  ho   predicted  are 

place,      The  following  statement,  which 

in  a  letter  from    Rodney,  Mi-. 

dated  on  the  2d  of  December,  is  contin 

nguished  General  who  was  long  in 

Southwest,  and  has  just  returned : 


hal  nearer  than  Fayette; 


JURY  QUALIFICATIONS. 

;natok  Doolittle,  of  Wisconsin    h 
cd  Stares  courts  (ho  iliMnisht;, ■'■u'iu..' 


:ily*prejudiecd.     The 


Davis,  when  tho  facts  ( 
to  every  man,  and  an  oj. 
by  every  man  bo  tar  as 


by   a  ji, 


Hoi 


1  provo  that  t 

0  work  of 

productive  as 

(hat  rif'toi 

he  will  bo 

stand  lis. 

Our  object 

The  point  wo 


method  c 

DOMESTIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

TDBPraldoni 


hject  I'm-  the  I 
as  Dy  a  aemzeti  of  tho  planet  Mercury 
eome,  dmvn.  Tim  qiirsfinn  in  il,.-  .  . 
bo  not  whether  Davis  had  waged  war  ,, 
tho  United  Stales,  winch  ho  would  not 
but  whether  ho  wore  justified  in  .lo.ng  .i 
Or  to  take  a  somewhat  dilVe.nnr  <a-e 
of  Qoantkell.  However  strongly  a  nui 
feel  upon  tho  subject  of  tho  Lawnn.  v  ■ 
ere,  ho  would  yet  bo  cnpnblo  of  porcetl 
pallialion  or  jusfinYafion,  if  n\„-U  ro.dd  I, 
duced.       And    whilo    tho    exclusion    01., 


nred 


the  French  Gov- 
tion,  had  punished 


who  hoarded  specie ;  if  our  Government  pur- 
sued its  present  policy  a  similar  measure  was 
not  improbable.  In  the  dread  inspired  by 
these  apprehensions  large  numbers  of  persons 
purchased  gold 

"   *ie  precioi 

Undismayed  by  these 
irsued  its  policy,  and 
:d,  the  effect  of 
1  specie  to  advance  to  285 
in  July,  1864. 

The  military  prospect  at  the  time  was  not 
unfavorable.  Grant  was  pushing  "on  to 
Richmond;"  Sherman,  with  the  finest  army  iu 
the  world,  was  preparing  for  his  march  through 
the  cotton  States ;  all  the  indications  were  in 
favor  of  the  success  of  the  Government  and  the 
ruin  of  the  rebels.  Yet  so  wide-spread  was  the 
alarm  created  by  the  interference  of  Govern- 

20  per  cent,  a  day  for  several  days  in  succes- 
sion, and  would  have  gone  on  rising  indefinite- 
ly but  for  the  repeal  of  the  "  Gold  Act. "  This 
evidence  of  a  return  to  sound  principles  checked 
the  advance.  But  it  was  not  so  easy  to  repair 
the,  damage  done.  The  lowest  price  made  for 
gold  in  August,  l864,  was  23i — fifty  points 
above  the  highest  price  current  before  Con- 
gress began  to  legislate  on  the  subject.  In 
the  first  week  of  September  Shehman  took 
Atlanta,  and,  on  the  news,  gold  fell  to  186. 
From  this  point  it  rose  again.  In  November 
considerable    uneasiness  was    felt    respecting 

Siii.i;.'.i  ■.■■      !.    i.  .   ■.  1    ■     "i  ;,.-k..  1     'I)  ■     did     no,      ■>  i,-l,j 


there 


which  the  masses  c 
of  paper-money 


ed26. 

This  was  the  last  great  upward  surge.  From 
the  fall  of  Savannah  at  Christmas  1864,  which 
depressed  the  price  to  211,  all  went  well  wilh 
tho  Union  cause.  Congress,  taught  by  ex- 
perience, killed  a  new  gold  bill  in  a  summary 
manner,  and  quite  positively  refused 
ize  new  issues  of  paper. 


ed  an  ex-slaveholder  for 


■ially 


:  mercy,  <■■  [„■- 
ive  worn  tne  uniform  of  the 
United  States.  Undoubtedly  the  whites  would 
like  to  exasperate  the  blacks  into  insurrection, 
that  there  might  be  a  good  oxcuse  for  their  ex- 
termination. Meanwhile,  it  is  indisputable 
that  the  conduct  of  the  freedmen  is  generally 
as  patient  and  loyal  as  it  was  during  the  war. 
They  are  willing  to  work,  and  wish  to  remain 
upon  their  native  soiL  Bnt  the  experience  of 
the  West  India  islands  shows  that  tho  class 
which,  after  emancipation,  retards  and  per- 
plexes a  proper  adjustment  of  the  new  relations 
is  always  the  masters.  As  a  rule,  their  haugh- 
ty, senseless,  impracticable  conduct,  their  refu- 
sal to  accept  the  radical  change,  and  their  de- 
termination either  to  retain  their  old  domina- 


Under  the  i 


;  cardinal  difficulty  of  the  s 


Post  urges  warmly  an  allotment  to 

men  of  portions  of  the  public  lands 

when  the  planting  class  discovt 

a  disappearing,  wages  will  ris 


and  the  landowners,  finding  that  the  la- 
borers were  not  absolutely  dependent  upon 
them,  would  gradually  come  to  reason. 

~uch  suggestions  deserve  thoughtful  attcn- 
;  and  the  importance  of  the  question,  and 
necessity  of  the  most  intelligent  action, 
:h  can  be  based  only  upon  accurate  kuowl- 
:,  show  how  indispensable  is  the  continu- 
of  the  Bureau  which  is  now  so  skillfully 
nbly  controlled  by  General  Howard.     It 


lis  trial  if  it  is  to  bo  composed  of  those  who 
vho  have  really  formed  or  expressed  no  opin- 
on  upon  the  subject.  Wo  aro  indeed  inclined 
0  believe  that  tho  trial  will  nevor  take  place, 
-ut  for  other  reasons.  Tho  President  says  that 
lersons  charged  with  treason  should  bo  tried, 
hat  the  truth  "may  bo  clearly  established  and 
ffirmed  that  treason  is  a  crime."  But  how  if 
ho  jury  should  not  agree  or  should  acquit  JbB- 
ehson  Davis,  for  instance  ?— would  tho  truth 
ot  be,  in  that  unlucky  case,  "clearly  estab- 
shed  and  confirmed"  that  secession  is  a  right  ? 


Do,, i,, 


WHAT  "JOE  FEY"  THINKS. 
"Job  Fry"  takes  us  pleasantly  to  task 
our  "Saturday  Sermon"  of  some  few  we 
since.     He  asks : 


:;:.:;,  ■,:■:: 


711.  ..iJ.i.V  iii,n-.'sjii'i"i. 

i'mw",:;:1;":::™," 

SSi""i«7"i5l,lta.S.' 

"'  T""  "">•" '»' 

"r7cC,t£o7rlgftrZ,'k!' 

oJrMoJ?Xll."prtT° 

-'■    '■•   '  1 1 1...I 

led  »lili  panel  torn 

"","";! 'i""'i""'ii  Y 

)  »I.M.  .-....-. 

H" > lMI,< 


.'"J;:;/^::;::: 


k-r,-.  I.  I,:,!,-,  fi„i|iini;''iv..ri|l  "ih,'    VmIo  I'JSLy  Vr  thtlr 


Mr.  "Job  Fry"  ought 

it  whether  it 

is  desirable  that  over 

uorked  rr.cr 

should  have 

ut  how  to  get  it.     ] 

.    ,    ,„     1, 

of  method, 

j.lCMIIK   III    il 

eworld,     Joewoulc 

certainly  be 

II    Mini    i|'|,(. 

did  not  talc  the  same 

t  that  he  does  for  ten 

nld  he  thin] 

or  a  loaf  o 

bread  instead  of  six  ?     And  ye 

liis  is  ivliril 

ho  expects 

he  capitalist  to  do. 

If  Joe  were 

dry-goode  dealer  would  he  expect 

»   p.,;/   I 


ithes 


as  for  five  yards  ot  tne  same  piece  ot  cotton 
goods?  Now  Joe  does  not  sell  cloth,  but  he 
does  sell  labor.  Does  he  suppose  eight  hours 
of  it  will  bring  the  price  often?  Of  course  if 
the  eight  is  more  effective,  that  is,  if  it  be  worth 


,.[-    . I    Tn    ■■         I         .'     .■    .       .      .    1    ,■ 

1  wounded  oa  board  the  Covadonpi,  and 


:,';:".:;;;; 


jiniou,  if  llic  L^i-latu.o  |  M  ,.'  u,'inr.u'y    i 


r  Don  Pedro,    There  la  no  c 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Jaitoahy  13,  1886. 


jANCATtT  13.  1S66.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


W^MB: 


<"  "  *"-      '       ' 


These,  beside  tin  econ- 
omy which  they  reuli/- 
a-i  le.Mnls  -pace  aad 
tinu\  will  ;d-i.  l.e  Iry: 
from    dust,    and*  afford 


day,  and  on  the  28th  tlio 
The  Governor  did  not 
turned  it  to  the  Secre- 


bat  found  two  o 


THE  METROPOLITAN  CNPERGEOUND   RAILWAY,  LONDON-STATION  Af  BAKEtt  STREET. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  13,  1866. 


practicable.  But  the  scheme-  was  destined  to  suc- 
ceed. The  city  of  London  subscribed  a  million  of 
dollars  toward  the  enterprise.  The  Western  Rail- 
way added  another  million.  There  were  the  same 
oiigiiu'eritigdiirieuitk's  to  be  overcome  there  as  here, 
but  the  thing  was  accomplished;  and  the  shares  of 
the  Company,  which  at  one  time  wore  uO  below  par, 
rose  to  139.  Tho  line  was  opened  for  traffic  Janu- 
ary 10,  1863.  The  number  of  passengers  carried 
the  first  year  reached  nine  and  a  half  millions,  and 
in  tho  year  1864  eleven  and  three-quarter  millions. 
This  year  it  is  estimated  that  the  number  will 
reach  fifteen  millions.  No  accident  has  occurred 
from  tho  first  organization  of  the  road.     The  ear- 


JOE  DORY. 

Malkin  WAS 


ntico  in  Miss  .iUalkin's  .-.Imp: 
in  \ftsn  wiry  woman  o]  thirty. 
::i  (ii.th-Ii-1.1. .;■•.. ill,  brown-eyed, 


at  home  here,  it  nccrns  a  pity  you 
v  again ;  it  really  does.  You  and 
;et  on  like  hook  and  eyoj  and  for 
v!  if  he  could  speak,  what,  better 
lian  to  see  you  provided  for  by  a  man 
1  fond  of  you  into  "     " 


with  bright  blue  eyes 

rclnngly  ironi  David  to  Mollie,  and 
[  again,  in  a  way  that  disconcerted 


Mi   ■.  Calkin. 


adoed  .-.he  had  not  once  opened 
Jtp-  tail  sat   wirn  her  work  in  her  hip  looking  from 
the  miserable  little,  gilt  and  crystal  box,  cause  of  all 

and  David  Truoman's  compliments,  and  ho  had  bet- 
ter have  kept  them  to  himself,  looking  from  them 
to  Miss  Malkin,  who,  discovering  that  the  New- 
Tear's  box  was  not  for  her  burst  out  in  a  fury. 

"  And  I  am  not  angry,"  cried  the  lady :  "  I  hope 
I  know  my  duty  too  well.    No,  no,  I  am  not  angry ; 
and  1  despise  your  low,  1 
will)  Ibivid  Tru.-n :    i.i, 


maker.  No  more  can  1  live  in  the  house  wit] 
quarrelsome  person ;  and  bo  tho  sooner  vou  c 
pack  up  that  trunk  of  yours  and  get  out,  why  t 

So  I  say  again,  that  though  David  Truenian  w 

undoubtedly  a  hue  fellow,  and  quite  in  earnest  abo 
i,  he  had  hotter  have  kept  them  a 


mother,  brother,  sister,  uncle,  aunt,  nor  cousin,  and 
but  one  intimate  friend  in  tho  world,  Mrs.  Peter 
Palmo,  of  Twentieth  Strcot-and  being  set  down 
there,  with  her  trunk,  late  in  the  afternoon,  and 
ringing  the  bell,  lo!  Mrs.  Peter  Palme  had  moved 

'  ■  Oh  !  what  shall  I  do ! "  cried  Mollie :  "  and  aro 


in  Mollies  face. 

"  Oh,  what  shall  I  do !"  cried  out  Mollie  again  ; 
and  looking  helplessly  up  the  street,  saw  a  gentle- 
man coming  from  tho  corner,  who  eyed  tho  girl  und 
her  disconsolate  trunk  on  I  tie  sidewalk  sharply. 

"Mr.  Trueman!"  ejaculated  Mollie. 

"  Miss  Mollie!  You  here  !"  exclaimed  the  gen- 
tleman, who  had  a  squeak  in  his  voice,  and  stopping 
—"you  here,  and  a  trunk!  If  1  may  be  allowed  the 
expression  with  a  lady,  what's  up  now?" 

"  Mis*  Malkin's  hack/'  answered  Mollie,  with  a 
sparkle  of  fun  in  her  eye,  but  looking  demurely  at 

Providential,  was  it  not?  for  this  was  David 
Trueman,  wlb  admired  the  lovely  Mollie,  and  on 
the  corner  was  David  Truenian's  shop, and  over  the 
shop  was  David  Truemau's  house,  and  in  the  house 
was  David  Truenian's  sister,  who  would  welcome 
the  lovely  Mollie;  and  yet  the  lovely  Mollie  would 
never  have  followed  him.  as  she  did,  doubting  t 
disconcerted, 


with  a  bald  forehead, 


i  what  might  happen,  t 


r  due  Duty,  tho 
id  looked  about 

s  only  her  brother, 


d  rtaiv  of  somebody  u-ho  happened  In  1,,,,|.: 
r  ii.,ii,  the  opll(1,ii.e  b\,\<.  0f  the  way.  As 
1  heard  her  thoughts,  David  joined' her  at 


pretty  view,  Miss  1 
ichea,  quite  like  the  ( 


nrry    ynu  ,•-<■. 


pleto,"  pursued  David, 
you're  in 


silent.     Last  New-Year  it  was  Jo 


"lam  in  n  desperate  hurry,"  continued  Mrs. 
Minnow,  wanning  a  pretty  foot  at  the  grate;  "but 
Jennie  called  out  that  Grim-Malkin  wos  cutting  up 
again  and  you  was  hero,  and  I  thought  I  must  run 


■  of  perpelunlly  fishing  him  up?  .   Why  not  let 

■  ah.nc,  especially  since  Mollie  ei, aided  at  once. 
"Last  New-Year's  Eve,  at  this  time,  Joe  was 
king  with  me,"  she  said,  gloomily,  silting  down 
[i  chair  and  showing  a  disposition  to  cry. 

■'  Nevermind,  dear.  Let  by-gones  lie  by-gones," 
!  Mrs.  Minnow,  cheerily,  and  looking  with  im- 
mense satisfaction  at  Mid  lie's  quivering  face.  Sup- 
pose wo  talk  about  New-Year.  I  have  a  lot  of 
bows  and  things  to  finish,  and  how  to  get  thein  to- 
gether I  don't  know.  I  never  waB  tasty.  If  you 
could  run  over  for  half  an  hour  now.  Indeed  I  was 
coining  !o   \li-~,  Mnlkiu'-  after  you." 

' '  If  she  isn't  too  tired, "  hinted  David ;  but  he  had 
better  have  held  his  tongue,  for  there  is  generally 
to  he  found  in  a  nineteen-year-old  the  pure  essence 
in  all  its  original  strength  ,  and  Da- 


herself,  and  went  below  with  Jennie  t. 

punch,  with  which  to  see  the  Old  Year  out  and  t 
New  Year  in.  Meanwhile  Mollie  turned  down  t 
gas,  because  of  her  headache,  and,  sitting  there 
the  dark,  resolved  to  give  David  his  answer.  Ev 
as  she  resolved  the  door  opened. 

"Mr.  Trueman,"  commenced  Mollie  in  a  trei 


choked,  and  liardlv  above  a  whisper. 

"  And  I  think  I  ought  to  tell  you  a' 

Mollie.  hesitatingly,   "for  fear  you 

stood  t 


and  whispering  Homeilimg  in  h 


md  "Oh,  George!"  ex- 
,  springing  up  the  steps. 


"Cozy  here,  isn't  it?"  said  Mrs.  Minnow,  taking 
up  tho  baby,  and  looking  about  her  with  an  air  of 
relief,  "and  it  is  all  George's  doings.    There  was  lit- 


If  It 


fancy  to  shelves,  why  there's  George  hammering, 
and  pounding,  and  cutting,  and  clipping,  and  plan- 
ing, and  nailing  till   the  shelves  are  done.     That 

what  I  want,  andjpt  it  for  me,"  declared  the  voung 
wife  with  a  delighted  f 
her  baby  beside  the  fire 
Mollie  made  no 


,  and  sitting  down  i 


Stop!"  burst  out  Mollie,  w 

her  place  I  should  have  gone  r 


"  And  for  that  matter,"  continued  Mrs.  Minnow, 
nth  a  curious  twitching  of  the  mouth,  "it  is  all 

cry  well  to  mourn  for  .lo,  ,  but,  after  all,  Joe's  dead 


■"■'   "ie ,1    Mollie,  start- 
el.   her  chair;   "and  I  am 
Minu.iw.iu  g„„d  ;l.  Joe  al- 
tVirgettiug  him  as  fa-t  as 


Up  jumps  1 

<>ti-ly.  and,  swinging 
cried  Hurrah  !  thereby  waking  it  out  of  a'sound 
sl,,'T;  ^b.-n-npon  ,i  ■,juilll,l  vigorously,  and  served 
to  peep  after  the  retreating  Mollie,  "Was  there 


tbundanco  of  his  home, 
s  quite  shrewd  enough 


it  hard  against  the  windows,  1  might  smile  at 
J,  but  I  should  be  shrinking  and  praying,  as  I 
ve  done  on  many  a  stormy  night  before,  for  Joe." 
"Oh,  God  bless  you!"  and  the  deep  voice  that 
<ke  in  on  hers  was  never  David  Trneinan's.   Mol- 
sprang  up  and  screamed  shrilly, 
"Jennie!  Mr.  Trueman!  Jennie!  quick!      I'm 
going  out  of  my  head  !  Jennie  !"  all  tho  time  trying 
to  light  the  gas,  which,  flaring  up  at  last,  showed 
David  hurrying  up,  withhis sister  close  behind  him, 
and,  oddly  enough,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Minnow  following 
her,  and  Mollie,  pale  and  dumb,  with  eyes  staring 
wildly  at  a  tall,  blue-eyed,  well-looking  young  fel- 
low, who,  if  he  was  a  ghost,  was  of  the  brownest 


;t  Joe  Dory!"  cried  < 


David,  loudly,  and  "  Joe 
uoryi"  ecnoea  Jennie,  and  "Joe  Dory,  sure 
enough  I"  piped  Mrs.  Minnow,  making  a  rush  fron 
behind  her  husband  toward  Mollie ;  "and  to  thinl 
that  he— no,  that  isn't  it !  stop  now— let  me  begin  at 
the  beginning !  and,  in  the  first  place,  Joe  isn't  dead 


?  got  when  passing  here,  1 


,  and  his  color  < 


e  spoke;  "he's  going  t 


"There  go  your  I'orf  ones,  girl-.!"  .-aid  Tom,  brcik- 
ing  silenu:-,  with  a  look  that  reminded  me  of  his  old 
mischievous  school-boy  days. 

"Hold  your  torgu.?,  sir'"  t  Inn  id-  red  my  father. 

"I  must  say  I  think  it  inconsiderate  of  Jacob, 

highly  inconsiderate."  said  my  mother,  but  aome- 

-  '  -  '  er  voice  pleaded  for  Uncle  Jacob  as  sho 


Ridiculous!  Unheard  of?"  My 
father  was  given  to  the  piling  of  epithets.  "  Piti- 
able in  a  nun  of  his  age!" 

"He  is  old  to  marry,"  said  my  mother. 
"Old!     Only  think  of  it.     I  am  sixty-seven, 
.ttnl  lie  is  not  two  years  younger." 
"  I  suppose  he  was  very  lonely." 
"Why  could  he  not  have  come  here,  then?" 
"  His  business,  my  dear,"  said  my  mother.     "  I 
suppose  he  can  not  leave  his  office  in  town  for 

' '  Why  not  have  asked  one  of  the  girls  to  go  and 
ve  with  him?  if  he  waB  lonely.  Lonely!  non- 
mse !  The  man  has  no  more  feeling  of  loneliness 
■  any  thing  else  than  a  dried  Btick.  Lonely !" 
"  It  seems  a  pity,"  said  the  gentle  voice  of  the 
gentlest  of  all  gentlewomen. 

You  don't  appreciate  the  case  at  all,  Mary! 
old  goose!  So,  nothing  but  marrying  will 
i  his  turn— and  all  out  of  spite  too !  "  Well,  he  , 
of  cares  on  his  shoulderB,  and 


1  find.      There's  a 


and  you  only  dead  a  year, 


5  quit  this  very  day,  only 
was  going  on  shameful, 


David  Truenian's,  and  after  that  I  suppose  you  know 
as  well  as  I  do  what  will  come  next ;'  and' this  wise 
Joe,  being  a  man,  is  stupid  of  course,  and  swallows 
it  all,  and  back  he  posts  to  me,  and  then  I  come 
over  to  see  how  the  land  lay,"  looking  wickedly  at 

bring  her  out;  and  I  had  very  nearly  brought  my- 

your  way,  my  dear!  and  I  brought  you  out;  and 
you  come  out,  didn't  you?"  said  Mrs.  Minnow, 

laughing  heartily  and  whirling  the  bewildered  Mol- 
lie round  mid  round:  "and  Joe  there  all  the  time 
on  the  other  side  of  the  door  and  heard  every  word 

ghost. 


The  punch,''  cried  Jennie. 
"The  New-Year."  said  Joe  softly,  drawing  Mol- 
e  a  little  aside,  "und  a  New-Year  for  us  indeed, 


UNCLE  JACOB'S  WIFE. 


apologetically,  as  he  laid  the  letters  bv  l 
plate. 


her  better  sight. 

"It  will  wait,"  h 

Urn  ih-  touch  ofspli 

presently  broke  Uncle  Jacob's  red  seal 

"He  is  coining  here,"  he  said, without  looking  up. 
my  mother,  and  my 


i'a.ili.  :  ivari  i 
a  lctt,.rbefti 
changed.      I 


•  What  has 


He  always  read  straight  Uncivil 


Ift  it  very  bad  ?"  for  my  father's  face 


;  perhaps  in  my  mother's 


"No,  Mary;  I  didn't  mean  that!  You  know 
d  not.  You  and  I  have  pulled  together  witho 
rob  or  iiveand-thirty  years.  Why,  Polly,  wh 
oyou  thinking  of!"     She  did  not  speak,  Lot  I  a 


3  known  to  us  all  to  be  the  sunlight  under 


luckily  giving  utterance  to  the  thought  that  was 
seething  in  our  girlish  minds. 

"Stuff,  Sir!  What  does  it  matter!"  said  my 
<  n  '  V  d,  igmng  woman, 
no  doubt:  designing  women  are  all  alike." 

Now  Uncle  Jacob  had  never  spoken  a  word  of 
leaving  us  sixpence,  but  we  built  our  hopes  on  the 

He  had  not  a  single  relation  in  t'lie'world 

Mi>    Imit-o.       Il.c  bad  nlw;u'.  been   kind  ions 
in  hi-  u-.-'.v,  p.r,  in-  Tom's  sclmoUalK  and   -endiu-; 


could  well  be  sect;.  lie  was  really  fond  of  her,  in 
his  undemonstrative  way,  and  had  told  my  father 
onfidentially  several  times  that  she  was  an  "ex- 
eclleni  woman."  On  one  occasion,  too,  my  father 
ha.!  I'ln  lamenting  id  his  presence  that  we  girls 
could  have  no  fortunes. 

"  Tom  must  have  the  farm,  of  course,  and  then 

if  be  marries?"  my  failhr  had  said;   and    Uncle  J-. 

oil.  had  said:  "  Don't  fret  yourself  about  their  for- 


-  ceriaiiih'- 

t  did  not  an  im 

.-lightly  hidden  a8  to  b. 

>,  and  rejoiced  and  made  mer 

are  of  our  fortunes  from  tha 


seen  ?     We  thought  t- 


but  not  asking  any  of 

"Although  he  invi 

est  manner  possible,  1 


My  father  shortly  enjoined  Tom  to  keep  his  ideas 
to  himself:  so  he  had  evidently  decided  to  receive 
the  visit. 

The  wedding-day  passed,  and  the  fortnight's 
honey-moon  passed,  and  the  bride  and  groom  were 
to  be  with  us  next  day  (roads  permitting).     It  re- 

allv  \v;e.   jdcaMMii,   ilea,   cmiiing  r-o  n,  j'or  oar  en- 

riosity  had  been  raised  to  the  highest  pitch,  and 
had  as  yet  had  nothing  to  allay  it— not  a  single  par- 
ticular as  to  the  young  lady's  age,  looks,  manners, 

mother  had  thought  to  write  to  Uncle  Jacob,  ask- 
ing a  few  que-tions  as  to  these  matters,  "to  show 


the  bride,  as  the  hour  came  for  the  carriage  to  be 
heard  crunching  the  frost  up  the  drive. 

le  is  sure  to  be  nervous,  poor  thing.     Mind 


thi    hall  door,  and  stood  ji 

low  post-boy  came  to  tho  stepst '  She 
th<  brid<  -inches  taller  than  Uncle  Ja« 
Bligbi  and  dressed  in  dark  rich  colors,  I 
thick  a  veil  down  that  we  could  not  ev 


n  the  biting 


January  13,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


:  her  Rice,  not  even  when  she  kK-ed  u  =  ,  f 


"Dear  Uncle  Jacob,  let  Tom  take  j 
Civil  things 
sbaled  o       " 


'Yes," 


ninl  we  kept  vingoui  <  hair- 


'Thai 


(ji.-l;.--),  "  it  was  colli"  (jH>I,e). 
(scrape  of  the  lower  bar)  'like  gias.v  (eia, 
npp-r  erupt),  "and  w  crept  alone,  slowly. ' 
"Will  she  never  lift  tier  veil?"  ponder 
CO'ight  my-cll  wandering  off  into  mu«iii:_ 
the  mythi-al  -PL'-laml  Lady,"  and  Iht  1 


"What?"  she  said,  turning  ao 
Damo  Eleanor  Spcaring's,     "Up  61 


"Janet,  let  me  carry  your  cloak,"  she  said,  in  a 
desperate  voice ,  hut  Aunt  Janet  was  evidently  du- 
bious of  her  meaning  till  my  mother  had  taken  pos- 
session of  that  article. 

"  Uncle,"  said  Tom,  "  I'll  show  you  your  dross- 


Jane  and  I  were  left  together,  ai 
ack  when  she  heard  them  p:it-s  up  : 
"Oh,  Nettie,  why  did  you  laugh 

"She  wouldn't  hear  it"  said  Nettie 


1  Nettie  came 
airs. 

1  the-  lull?"   i 


"  Not  I,     Oh,  what  a  bride !" 

"  She  is  an  odd-looking  creature,"  said  Jaue. 

"Fifty  at  least." 

"We  shall  be  as  hoarse  as  rooks  with  ehoutii 
to  her,  if  they  stay  for  a  week,"  said  Jane. 

"What  a  sight  the  courtship  must  have  Licet 
Poor  Uncle  Jacob  must  have  made  love  under  di 
ficultieslndeed  .  the  whole  neighborhood  must  ha' 


lich  we  both  joined.     In 


1  Samuel  Marten's  only  chil 


light  at  once.     Old  Marten  died  in  India  over  a 
year  ago,  and  she  came  home." 

"That  makes  her  bo  brown,"  said  Nettie.     "I 

thought  ■he  h.nj  an  Indian  sort  of  look." 

"Her  fortuno,  of  course,  is  very  large -7  and  not 
knowing  into  what  hands  she  might  fall,  ho  thought 


mains  is  for  us  to  be  civil  to  her:  she  deserves  it." 

"  Did  he  say  any  thing  about  her  deafness,  papa  ?" 

"No,  child".     Why  should  he?" 

"Did  you?" 

"  Nonsense !  What  does  it  signify  ?  He'll  only 
lead  the  quieter  life  for  it.  A  wife's  tongue—  Now, 
Mary,"  said  he,  looking  at  my  mother  — "now, 

"I  was  not  saying  any  thing,  dear,"  said  my 
mother.  She  led  my  father  in  a  chain  of  silk  that 
was  as  strong  as  iron. 

After  a  day  or  two  Aunt  Janet  took  up  the  habit 
of  comiDg  to'the  morning-room  directly  after  break- 
fast, and  spending  the  \  " 


silent  party  after  she  ap- 
r  deaf  your  companion  ib, 


My  mother  looked  pained.  "  Nettie,  don't  speak 
F  your  aunt  so.  Never  mind  her  looks;  eho  can 
ot  help  them." 

■I  suppose  she  can  not,  mamma,  and  yet  a  spH 
f  instinct  mokes  me  blame  people  for  being  ugly." 
"  It  isn't  her  face  I  mind,"  said  Jane,  who  had 
iken  a  strong  dislike  to  our  aunt:  "but tier  voice 
j  of  calico, 


"  She  can  not  help  her  voice,"  said  my  molhei 
"You  should  try  and  look  at  people';,  pleasant  side 

"  I  don't  think  she  has  a  pleasant  side." 
My  mother  made  no  answer,  but   turned  an 
shouted  a  little  of  the  morning  news  from  the  pa 
per  to  amuse  our  aunt.      Presenlly  Tom  entered. 

poekc.t.      Will  you  sew  it  up  for  me?" 

"Yes,  only  come  closer.     Now  stand  6till — d 

stand  still,  Tom,  dear— I  am  pricking  my  linger." 


■■  What  !    for  hooking  the  old  gvulhinan?" 
"Tom,"  said  Nettie,  '■  do.vou  think  that  is  Am 
let's  hair,  or  a  wig  (in  a  confidential  tone)?" 
''A  wig,  to  be  sure,"  said  Tom,  determinedly. 

Bt  really  go  out  of  the  room.  Come,  Nettie,  ai 
>w  your  aunt  sonic  of  your  water-colors.  I  da 
■    Ik  like-  looking  at  drawings." 


i   1 1 1 1 J  :■..',"  .-uid  s;Hi.:.i-ne  Jane. 


commonly  well.  I  was  watching  Aunt  Janet's  un- 
interested face  as  Nettie  sang,  and  thinking,  with 
some  pit)',  how  great  a  privation  hers  was,  when 
Nettie  struck  the  first  bar  of  "Ye  BankB  and  Braes," 
and  a  chan-e  swept  across  the  immobile  fuce  for  nn 
instant,  as  if  sho  heard— at  least,  I  mean  that  for  a 
second  I  fancied  so,  for  as  I  looked  the  face  was 

"Poor  thing!"  Baid  my  mother,  "how  I  wiBh 

sho  coidd  hear  those  sweet  Scotch  airs!" 

"  I  should  not  think  it  would  make  much  differ- 


ing Aunt  Janet, 

ed  to  tell  von—"  he  said  to  my  mother. 

"Tell  me  what,  dear?" 

"Nothing— but  that  Jacob  told  me  they  arc  go 
ing  on  Thursday.  He  is  getting  fidgety  at  beinj 
away  from  the  office  so  long." 

"Janet  spoke  about  going  to  me  this  morning." 

"Well,  I  hope  you  have  kept  her  amused.  Slu 
must  be  conciliated  at  any  cost.  We  must  huvi 
them  again  soon,  though  I  hate  the  sight  of  hor 
I  really  can  not  enjoy  my  dinner  in  the  least,  shout 
ing  out  as  I  must  between  every  mouthful.  But  1 
can  not  be  helped." 

"  I  liko  her,"  said  my  mother  ,  "sho  is  quiet  am 


,  telling  Nellie  and  11 


"You  shall  see  all  that  is  to  be  seen,  as  your 
mat  means  to  keep  a  carriage,"  ho  said,  kindly, 
tnrt  we  thanked  him,  as  in  duty  bound ,  but  I  don't 

hinkwe  either  of  us  feli  inclined  K.  venture  ..n  »ur 
iew  aunt's  hospitality. 


her  to  dress  herself  ii 


'There you  mistake  me,"  t 
act  from  principle  in  not  g 


I  Jane,  i 


"As  I  hear  other  people,"  said  my  aunt,  quietly. 
•Good-by,  dear  Mary"  (and  she  turned  to  kiss  my 
nother).  "You  have  been  very  kind  to  me.  I 
lever  expected  you  to  think  me  a  beauty,  you 
wow;  you  gave 'me  credit  for  being  *  kind-hearted 
ind  sensible*— I  think  that  was  it— and  that  is  all 
[  want  from  you.      Believe  me,  1  think  all  the  bet- 

,1  thi-Vdre.-  of  Truth." 
"Why,  Janet!  then  you're  not  deaf  after  all?" 
But  what  she  answered,  or  what  my  mother  said 

from  the  room.    Wc  could  not  even  bring  ourselves 


"Fot  what?"  asked  Tom,  suddenly  appearing. 
And  then  wc  told  him  all. 

"You  don't  mean  it!"     And  then  he  gave  vent 

to  bis  iH.linL's  in  the  longest  of  whistles. 

What  my  father  bakl  on  the  subject  we  never 


knew,  nor,  Indeed,  guessed— for  his  face  was  a  sealed 


"No,  mv  dear,  you  might  ca^il 
and  I  shall  write  ami  tell  her  so." 


■  ll'erel    of    dr  deviling     people    i 

me,  Mary,  and  let  uo  talk  i 


A  letter  canm  from  Undo  Jacob 
the  giils  with  you  when  you  come, 

"Don't  let  them  be  vexed  with  tl- 


you  well  enough  to  sinilo  on  us 
Bring 


people's  goodness,"  said  Tom.      "  Mot 


HOME  AND  FOREIGN  GOSSIP. 


,<■!;. -I  >u Hi..-  -i.lil  ..I  11  |ii. i-h 1 

uetnoro  fovon.ljli.  ..pp  riunliy  in 

r.lnln  mini  11.1*1.    iii'lns:  tin.  ,n. 

7Vi.ii  th»  eon,.pn-iic,-.  nf  ninl 
II  Uo  apparent  1.1  lln- in. i-i.ililu.. 
,  „,,.k-i,  ,11.1  .rep  yon,  will,  cu 

:i--;„.-  pniri  iu  tiny  |...iTmiiii   iln 


od  overnight  Ib  not  fft  for  c, 


!■■    ll.ii.     "      ' '       

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l...!!..-!/,...!.!  |li|,d.-rt    -I've  pot  tjo 'Tims  Mem. 

1    '  1  '  '"  '    '  ''I) 

"  Wliet  do  you  tli'luk  or  lh.tr  «dd  he,  huudlng.  u 
The  clerk  pnld  htm  nt  once. 
Fodder  hmoim  to  bo  eenrco  In  .onio  porta  of  the  country. 


under  It,"  nun  tlio  reply." 


ing  every 

1.11,1  l.lp. 


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HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Jauuahy  13.  1866. 


OUR  NEW  FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 

Oin  Fire  Department  is  now  OS  efficient  as  on 

...liee  Department-  Within  A  year  a  i.cl  imparl 
III  revr.hiti.nl  tin"  tern  ,vro..i;!it,  from  win.  Ii  urea 
.eaelit,  will  acenio  to  tl,e  city.     Our  l.ee,islal,,r, 

,!,r  city  fire  Heparin.™',  iloinK  ««»y  with  til 
oh.ntr'er  avstem  an.l  plaeinc  tl.e  llrparlment  o 


f  Knejneer.    The  new  Depiirlme 


tlie  almost  complete  Babatitutlon  of  telegraph  sig- 
nals for  the  ringing  of  alarm  belle.    The  latter  drew 


at  favorable  e.vliil 
the  parade  of  D 
■eview  before  tho 


HALF  A  MILLION  OF  MONEY. 

By  A5IELIA 


CHAPTER  XCVI. 
sternly,  William  Trefalden  j 


if  he  wore  a  ghost.     Ho  passed  her  as  he  would 

mechanically,  and  went  out.  At  the  gates  ho 
paused.  Tho  key  was  on  the  inside;  but  ho 
fumMcd  with  it  confusedly,  and  could  not  turn 
the  lock.  Tho  housekeeper,  looking  after  him 
with  a  sort  of  vague  terror,  called  to  Jacques 
to  open  the  gates  for  Monsieur:  whereupon 
Jacques,  clattering  ncross  the  yard  in  his  sabots, 
came  running,  lantern  in  hand,  and  turned  the 

Monsieur  passed  out  into  the  lane,  like  a  mnn 

still  and  leaned  against  the  wall.  The  wind 
blew  fiercely,  bringing  heavy  drops  c" 


age.     He  stopped,  walk 


■nt  slowlv  down 
,road.     Totherij 


nd  all  unl 

.ndphy-d. 


J  pi 
He  had  gone  through  a  terrific  ordeal, 
had  now  begun  to  tell  upon  him,  body  and  brain. 
Dimly  conscious  of  this,  he  tried  to  collect  his 
thoughts— tried  to  consider  what  it  wag  that  ho 
wanted  to  do,  and  which  way  he  should  go  next. 
Then  he  suddenly  remembered  that  be  had  been 

He  would  go  to  tho  nuberge  in  the  village,  and 
there  get  somo  food  nnd  some  brandy — above 


'L)..n  .Mir. 


pca-aut- 


the  master  of  .the  house  recognizing  the  Englis 
Monsieur  who  was  to  occupy  his  best  bedchan 
ber  that  night,  left  his  game  of  dominos  and  KM 
respectfully.  Did  Monsieur  desire  to  see  hi 
was  quite  ready,    and   h 


tight 


Monsieur  have  refreshment?  Wit 
Monsieur  could  have  whatever  refi 
to  pleased— a  cntlet,.an  omelet,  a 


;  VietiX  Cognac,  if  .\ 
it  to  wine.  Monsiei 
ately.     The  cutlet  ^ 


William  Trefalden   dropped    into  the  chnir 

longing  that  seized  upon  him  at  this  thought! 

placed  l'.,r  him  In   the  landlord,  .'.nd  there  Bat  in 

Mi     hair  ami  .  h.lbi-  n-ie  .b.ii.p:    hi-  feet  were 

true  nt  len-t   to  her  from  first  to  last  !      lie  felt 

,|e.elh   ,.,].!  ■    his  lee,!.  '  li:itl<ne.|  ;    but  of  all  thifl 
|„.  wa'snliMlly  ...I" ...-  ■..,„-.       Me. , all  knew  that 

thai  be  had  neve,  half  to  hi  her  In.  w  be  h.v r. 

He  had  never  even  kissed  her- never  once ;   for 

his  respeet  had  been  i.s  prof.. and  as  his  hue,  and 

In  Ihink  nf  something  ami  had   mj  power  to  do 

he  had  not  dared  In  ehnin  the  sinallest   privilege 

hrnii.l",   the  l.inndv! 

lie  called  for  it    impatiently,   and  while  tho 

to  clasp  her  in  his  ai  nisnn.l  press  In.  lips  to  hers. 
Good  God !  how  be  loved  her  1    How  his  heart 

landlord  went  to  l.l.l,  il   fell  n.  e lering  again 

what  the  thing  was  that  be  failed  s.,  »i,-.,ng.di  ... 

hungered  for  her! 

He  shook  the  gates  with  all  his  might— strove 

M."'.  ."'n'.-.i  ever, a,    lie    | 1   .,1     .-i/nig    it,  and. 

to  clamber  over  them— flung   himself  against 

tln-m;    hut  in  vain      Then  he  pressed   In-  face 

.;:.;!:,,,; 


Doner  swallowed  it  than 
rain  was  relieved.  After 
'armer,  steadier.  Then 
jddenly.     He  remember. 

oodof  rage,  grid,  li.iin-.l 


thoughts 
came  back  t 


<Vv,  vu 

hmi'-ir't 
il  might. 
in,:l.v,   an 


,  deadly,  terrible  venge- 
and  bloody!  He  told 
ive  it,  be  the  cost  wVat 


ii  cheaply  purchased.  The 
his  brain,  throbbed  in  his 
pulse,  tingled  in  his  cars,  mastered  and  took 
possession  of  him,  like  a  fiend. 

He  knew  that  he  must  plan  his  vengoanco 
quickly.  It  must  bo  planned,  propared,  executed 
at  once.  The  blow  must  fall  as  suddenly  and 
fatnlly  as  the  shaft  of  the  lightning.     How  was 


idone?    Withwh 


find  that  the  cook  had  done  her  bei 
a  notice.     Hero  was  a  little  soup;  h 

omelet  would  be  ready  for  Monsiei 


his  lips.  The  brandy  had  si 
a  factitious  strength  that  cau 
ie  the  sight  and  smell  of  solid 

I  be  took,  however,  from  the  dii: 


i  pile  of 


M|i|inl  impatiently  for  the  land- 


The  landlord  was  distressed  beyond  measure. 
Vas  not  the  soup  to  Monsieur's  taste?  Were 
ot  the  cutlets  tender?  Would  not  Monsieur 
Brmit  him  to  bring  the  omelet?  Helas!  was 
[onsicur  finding  himself  ill  ?  Would  Monsieur 
lioose  a  cup  of  tea?     More  cognac?     Good. 


The  cognac  v. 


ately. 


He  and  went  out  hurriedly.  The  two  old 
:s  shook  thetr  heads  over  their  wine  and 
after  him.  Diabkl  There  was  surely 
ing  strange  about  the  man.  Was  he  ill  ? 
J?  Or  had  he  drunk  too  much  cognac? 
vas  he  not  an  English! 


win,  drin 

ng  furiously  I 


cogn 


wind,  an  sweeping  down  the  road  in  great  gusts 
before  n  lich  the  poplars  moaned  and  shivered 
like  living  things.  What  with  the  sudden  shock 
of  cooler  air,  and  what  with  the  fever  in  his  blood, 
the  lawyer  reeled  at  first  meeting  the  wind  and 
rain,  and  could  scarcely  keep  his  feet.  But  this 
was  only  for  a  moment.  He  recovered  himself 
instantly,  and,  fighting  his  way  in  the  teeth  of  the 


istnnuy,  and,  righting  in-  way  in  Hi 
orm,  crept  under  the  lee  of  the  1 


Pcyrollcs.  He 
night  was  pitch 
lii.'  high-road  . 


Ch.UeLU,   tl, 


andh'e  could  not' 

Iv|,' 

Then  he  stopped,  cl 

.     The  darkness 

ot  distinguish  the 

the  house ;  but  he 

saw  lights  still  b 

some  of  the  rooms. 

especially  fixed  his  a 

tention.    Was  that  window 

Oh  I  tho  passion 

the  despair,  »he 

desperate 

ht'ttr 


died  upon  he 

away  by  t 


I  nmigkd  v.  if h 

e  in  the  dark- 


He  felt  as  if  the 


:  gates  and  shouted  furiously.  The 
;ed — moved  on — paused  again,  and 
c  quickly  toward  him.  Then  the 
it  high  above  his  head  with  one 
1  his  eyes  with  the  other,  and  asked 


"  7Yena.'"said  he.     "They  are  all  in  bed  la 

William  Trefalden's  heart  leaped  with  fierce 

"No  matter,"  he  replied.  "  My  viBit  is  to  the 
gentleman.  Tell  me  where  he  sleeps.  That  is 
-ough." 

•    \\  .1"  ,:Hiil,-,n..).,   U'sicm  ?" 
"He  who  camo  to-day  with  the  English  cure. 
Quick!    Time  presses,  and  my  business  is  urg- 


'  Dog,  it  is  a  lie ! — a  lie,  and  you  are 


tant,  or  I  strangle  you!" 

And,  half  beside  himself,  the  to 
,is  hands  in  the  lad's  collar  as  if  he 


'•  Where  is  Madame  Bouisse?" 

"  Gone  to  bed,  M'sieur  !" 
.     "  Then  wake  her— tell  her  I  must  see  her.     If 
she  were  dying,  I  must  see  her.     Do  you  hear  ?" 

"Ye.,  M'sieur." 

Trembling  from  head  to  foot,  Jacques  picked 
up  the  lantern  which  he  had  dropped  in  his  ex- 
tremity of  terror,  and  led  the  way  into  the  house. 
They  went  straight  to  the  housekeeper's  cham- 
ber, where  William  Trefalden  thundered  at  the 
door  as  if  he  would  bring  it  down.     Madame 

out  of  her  wits,  and  wrapped  in  the  counterpane 
of  her  bed. 

It  was  quite  true  —  undeniably  true.  The 
voung  Englishman  was  gone,  and  had  taken 
manVselle  with  him.  They  left  about  twenty 
minutes  or  half  an  hour  after  Monsieur  took  his 
departure.  Madame  Bouisse  believed  they  were 
gone  to  Bordeaux.  Monsieur  was  free  to  search 
the  house  if  he  chose ;  but  he  would  assuredly 

imtl  .1,;;.!   •  |,e,   \!;).i.'U!e  Bnin-e    »\  a--  Ool  dcavi, 

ing  him.    They  were  gone. 

Without  waiting  to  hear  or  utter  another  word 
he  snatched  the  lantern  from  the  boy's  hand  and 
rushed  up  stairs.  From  suit  to  suit,  from  floor 
to  floor,  through  empty  rooms  yet  full  of  the  ev- 


s !  Then  he  paused,  turned, 
.  in  the  darkness,  heaped  curses 
raged  against  it  impotently, 


■lively  calm. 

.   lie   had   put 


Busy  with  his  scheme  of  vengea' 

restraint  upon  his  words,  and  even  to  a  certain 

degree  upon  his  looks.    But  now— now  he  no 

overflowed,  and  bore  him  along,  unresisting. 

Gone! 

Impelled  by  an  instinct  that  seemed  to  take 
the  place  of  sight,  he  ran  down  the  lane  and  out 
upon  the  high-road.  The  "Lion  d'Or"  was  now 
closed  for  the  night;  but  he  battered  fiercely  at 
the  door  till  it  was  opened.  The  landlord,  sleep- 
ily obsequious,  ventured  to  remark  that  Monsieur 
was  late,  but  William  Trefalden  interrupted  him 
at  the  first  word. 

"  I  must  have  a  cabriolet  and  _ 
said.     "  At  once— do  vou  hear  ?' 

Tho  landlord  shook  his  head. 

tlfon  liieu,  Monsieur!"  he  said,  "the  'Lion 


d'Or* 


"But  vou  have  horses?" 
■K..1H-,  Monsieur." 
1 '  Then  where  can  I  get  them  r 


eaux  ?     I  will  pay  any  thing.     Pool ! 

ei  >tand  ?— Any  tiling!" 

andlord  only  shrugged  his  shoulders 


nched  his  teeth,  and  stamped 


■  like-  n  cased  heast,  ho 


plored  to  be  taken  up — he  wot 
only  to  stand  upon  the  step,  i 

and  shook  his  whip  nt  him  ;  i 
inside,  cut  off  from  him  by  win 
damp,  and  deafened  by  the  re 

wheels  and  the  pelting  of  the  y, 


(responsible,  head- 
the  sharp  flints  in 
i  hands  all  cut  and 


and  so,  drenched,  giddy,  breathless,  his  hat  gone. 
his  face  and  clothes  disfigured  with  mud  and 
rain,  in-hing  blindly  on  again  ! 

Each  moment  the  storm  increased  end  the 
wind  rose  higher,  till  at  last  it  culminated  in  b 

in  heavy  peals,  and  the  lightning  burst  over  the 
plain  in  rapid  flashes,  and  the  wind  tore  up  the 

Yet    still,  urged  forward  by  that  fierce  toYrei 


m-m  d  until  ..ii  mi  :...H\  i-.w  .i.l  ihe  west  with 
now  and  then  a  fleam  nt' ma  a  nam  sunshine  be- 
tween, a  party  of  peasant  folk  coming 
the  wav  of  Medoc  found  the  body  of  a 


man  ly- 

nd  M.le. 

ion,  and 
)  full  of 


The  "hoi 


,-folk  laid  this  nameless 

corpse  across  one  of  their  mules,  and  brought  it 
■  harii  <l.l\  .thcdc.ul  Iu.'it.ii  Bordeaux.  Hav- 
ing I,;,,  ihrre  unclaimed  for  forty-eight  hour?,  it 
was  buried  in  the  new  cemetery  beyond  the  walls, 
-mall  black  cross  at  the  head  of  the  grave, 
on  which  the  only  inscription  was  a  row  of  nu- 
merals. His  watch,  his  money,  and  his  clothes 
were  awarded  by  the  pre'fet  to  the  poor  of  tho 
parish  in  which  the  body  was  found. 


EPILOGUE. 


The  world  knows  tho  Italian  story  by  heart. 
How  Garibaldi  entered  Naples :  how,  at  Delia 
Catena,  he  saluted  Vic  tor-Em  an  tiel  as  King  of 


itude  at  Caprcra.  are  fact:,  whirl,  need  no  reca- 
pitulation.     Had  one  man  lived  hut  a  few  months 

chance  hn^e  en  I    I    1 il     '    \\  I,  !','  *      I, 

read  Florence  wc  might  have  read  Rome;  for 
"  Regno  d'ltalia"  on  printed  stamp  and  minted 
coin,  a  word"  of  broader  significance  and  more 

:iini<|iK  .-'lory.  But  the  ideal  Republic  died  with 
Giulio  Colonnn,  nnd  was  buried  in  his  grave. 

In  the  mean  while  Olimpia's  life  became  a 
blank.  Her  father  had  hem  the  very  light  of 
hr-i  inn'-i'  world.  Bred  in  his  political  faith, 
trained  in  lus  cmp!n\  a.TU>tomed  ro  look  up  to 
linn,  to  work  villi  him.  to  shun?  his  most  secret 


January  13,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


tilted  in  this  cuin|,r,,iiiis>.>  ■ 

ill"    alto^tlllT    lYolll     till'    \1 


1,1,1   ,|,„f  a 


)  learn  in  this  world  s 


,rty,  he 'Welcomed  tin-  si'ttli-iucut 


i  affairs  with 
pcrlinps  scarcely  have  \  sutured  to  express  very 
Ioudlv  in  the  presenco  of  Colonna's  daughter. 
Where  she  refused  to  r(  cognize  any  vital  differ- 
ence between  a  Constit  itioiml  government  and 
a  pure  Despotism,  he  w  is  far-sighted  enough  to 


kingdom  of  Italy,  nor  was  he  slow  to  perci 
that  there  might  be  he  ic  for  himself  in  the  t 
that  matters  had  taken.'  The  Irnlimirjnustiuii  I 
far  solved,  Italy  would  no  longer  need  so  m, 


army  to  defend  the  nation 

ial  .pleading  of  every  de 
arily  collapse.  Olimpit 
,ger  feel  herself  bound  tt 


.,  Hak"tl, 
,,pcd.,n,  „ 
Wiselv,    f 


id  wisely  bided  his  tim 
o,  he  applied  himself 
improvement  of  his  ow 
upving  his  friend  Sa 
Jameses  Street,  he 


>ved  and 

„'i,n"",:.'! 


uple  of  really  br: 


personages. 


The  Earl,  as  a  matter  of  course,  acquitted  him. 
elf  perfectly ,  and  began  thenceforth  to  bo  talked 
f  among  his  ciders  as  a  "rising  man."  Then 
he  Duke  of  Doncaster  smiled  graciously  upon 
im,  and  several  of  the  Cabinet  Ministers  fell 
no  the  wav  of  asking  him  to  then  political  -Int- 
ers ;  and  the  end  of  it  all  was,  that  just  before 
lio  setting  in  of  the  long  vacation,  Gervase  Leo- 

,1,1  Wvnncclvlfe,  Earl 


the  work  was  Iil'Iii  ami  i 


f  Castletowers,  fom 

erquisite  Office,  where 
salary  heavy,  and  the 


he  moment  was  favorable.  A  year  of  mourn- 
had  parsed  over  her  head,  and  the  intense 
tide  of  heart,  which  had  been  at  first  her  only 
:e  now  began  to  weigh  painfully  upon  her. 
had  had  time  to  think  of  many  things— time 
ve  down  some  errors  and  outlive  some  holies 
me  also  to  remember  how  long  and  well  the 
I  had  loved  her;  how  worthy  ho  was  of  all 
lovr  ihaf  she  couM  ttivi-  him  in  return;  how 


in;,  loft  to  settle  hn  nun  affairs  in  a  qi 
iiiiuiunal  way.  The  disaster  at  As| 
convinced  Miss  Colonna  of  this  iriuli,  a 
,  lability  of  the  new  t-,  711//C  And  over  a 
all  those  const, lor, nil, in  l  ilhn|,ia.  I,,\,sl 
She  had  loved  him  all  along— even  whe 
fused  him ;  and  now,  after  a  whole  yei 


hmoes.      That  flic  [iron,!  Alelle  a  ii„ 
prepared  to  sacrifice  1 


d-nay, 


l,  T  nvo  hundred  and  fifty 
ghidlvthnna  p-Nib-ml- ■  <.'<■ 
bilitv  that  could  by  no  chai 
sphere  of  her  calculations.  So  when  Lady  Cas- 
tle towerB  came  over  to  see  her  the  next  day  in 
her  humble  suburban  home,  and  kissed  her  on 
both  cheeks,  and  said  all  the  pretty  and  gracious 

was  bound,  under  the  circumstances,  to  say, 
Olimpia  accepted  it  all  in  perfect  faith,  imr 
guessed  a  bitter  disappointment  lay  hidden  be- 
neath that  varnish  of  smiles  and  embraces.    The 

^ship's  displeasure,  was,  it  need  scarcely  be  said, 
careful  to  keep  the  secret  very  close  indeed. 

In  the  mean  while  Saxon  Trcfalden  had  gone 
back  to  Switzerland ;  and  there,  despite  the  i 


those    dear   friendB   whe 


heck-books,  persisteutly 
lie  Erectheum  lift  up  il 
ain  did  Bluckwall  lame 
use  to  be  comforted,  and  Italian  prima  donnas 
igh  for  banquets  and  bracelets  gone  by.  The 
oyisb,  laughing,  lavish  millionaire  was  fairly 
■  1.     The 


Castletowers, 
leaning  side  by  side  in  the  moonlight  uvea-  t] 
tuffrnil  of  the  Albula.  They  were  delightful  It 
ters,  tilled  to  overflowing  with  all  kinds  of  gei 
eral  detail:  now  telling  of  the  now  chalea 
which  was  already  in  progress;  now  of  tl 
bridge  just  built  at  Oatenstien,  or  the  road  to  I 
made  between  Tamins  and  Thusis ;    now   d 

r-uium-ni   ni   ilie  Cli.neau   1'lanta  ;    now   relani 


Geneva  for  that  church  at  Altfelden  on  which 
Pastor  Martin's  heart  had  been  set  for  the  last 
thirty  years— keeping  the  Earl  constantly  au  cou- 
rant,  in  fact,  of  every  particular  of  bis  friend's 
busy  and  benevolent  life  among  the  simple  peo- 
ple of  h: 


n-i|,  1 


1  the  Earl's  turn  to  ann< 

shortly  to  be  his;   and 

itreat  that  the  ncwly-mi 

r  wedding-journey  ; 


lalreadj  funny  sake. 
On  your  wedding-day  you  will  receive  a  parcel  of 
papers,  which  you  must  accept  as  a  souvenir  of 

The  "parcel  of  papers'*  proved  to  be  the  title- 
deeds  of  the  two  farms  sold  to  Mr.  Sloper,  and  the 
title-deeds  of  Mr.  Behrens's  "box"  and  grounds 
at  Castletowers.  The  farms  were  worth  from 
ten  to  twelve  thousand  pounds  apiece,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  "  fancy  price"  which  Saxon  had 
paid  for  the  wool-stapler's  property.  It  was  not 
a  baa  present,  as  presents  go,  and  it  madr  -  ":-' 


inn    with    that 


princely  wedding-gift 
lone,  but  Castletowers 


itself— Castletowers  it^lf,  with  thy  itn<-estral.>ak> 

in  which  his  forefathers  had  lived  and  died  for 
centuries  before  'him.  That  was  the  one  secret 
that  Saxon  never  confided  to  him— not  even 
when,  walking  together  under  the  applc-trces  at 
the  foot  of  the  church-hill,  he  related  the  story 
of  his  own  marriage,  of  his  cousin's  perfidy,  and 
of  the  fate  from  which  he  had  interposed  to  save 


to  know  her — how  I  came  to  love  her — now 
won  her.  I  brought  her  home  at  once  to  t 
little  chateau  yonder.  My  uncle  adored  1 
from  the  first  moment,  and  she  adored  him. 


she  had  been  living  here  for  about  a  month  or 
five  weeks  we  came  up  one  morning,  all  three 
together,  to  this  little  chapel  upon  the  hill,  and 
my  uncle  married  us.  There  was  no  one  present 
but  Kettli  and  the  organ-blower.  After  my  un- 
cle had  blessed  us  and  the  ceremony  was  all  over, 
we  embraced  and  bade  him  adieu,  and  walked 
along  the  Thusis  road  till  the  cabriolet  overtook 
us,  and  so  we  were  married  and  went  away, 
and  no  soul  in  Rcichenau  knew  it  till  we  were 
gone.     We  were  so  happy !" 

«  It  is  a  strange  story,"  said  the  Earl,  «  and  a 
pretty  story  ;  and  the  best  part  of  it  is  that  you 
and  I  are  cousins  Saxon,  alter  all!  * 

"Nay,"  replied  Saxon,  grasping  his  friend's 


A  word  remains  to  be  added  respecting  the 
other  moiety  of  the  great  Trelulden  Legacy  ;  that 
moiety  which,  according  to  the  will  of  the  testa- 
tor, was  to  be  bestowed  in  the  endowment  of  a 
great  charity,  chiefly  for  the  benefit  of  "decayed 
hip-broker*,  siuck- 
II, embers  of  the  le- 
nd thewidows  and 
sses  respectively." 


on  the  twenty-second  of  Marc'j,  1860,  and  the 
sum  then  transferred  to  the  crdit  of  the  trustees 
amounted  to  just  four  million  seven  hundred 
and  seventy-six  thousand  two  hundred  and  odd 
pounds.  Since  that  time  the  exertions  of  the 
Might  Honorable  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Corpora- 
tion have  been  beyond  all  praise.  To  say  that 
they  have  either  thought  much,  or  dono  much, 
up  to  the  present  .lute,  would  perhaps  he  prema- 


iul  salary  tor  |n 
ill  in  process,  , 


iilr."  i.ilt'.liu,  ,1   M.ntvnpv,  I 

what  il  will  belike,  and  a 
in  the  future  liistorv  of  tie 
My  be  completed,  aro  (pies 
ent  i-ri'iiei  jiion  is  advised  n 
riou-ly.      No  umllievni  air 

bought,  and   tiie  building 


a iv  -iilaried  on  it  scale  befitting  lb 
ie  foundation,  iheiv  will  yet,  reman 
■  the  "  Decayed  Tkai.lmii.n,  mei 
ship-brokers,  stock-brokers,    pon 


ut  persons  will 
r  time;  bow,  tin 
Irink,  and  he  mc 


HUMORS  OF  THE  DAY. 


I"1'"!.    I     "'"     "■■'■>•    <:""-'.V,  »'" I'".    ■_"■    IN     "'Il     llll|>|..'.t     Jo; 


GENERAL  JOSE  M.  J.  CARVAJAL. 

Gbhbbal  Jose  M.  J.  Carvajai,,  the  Special 
Commissioner  of  l ho  Republic  of  Mexico  to  the 
United  States,  was  born  at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  in 


;nt  and  responsible  offices,  which  had 

ho  proclaimed   himself  as  wholly  in 
iilican  institutions,  as  oppOBcd  to  the 


,,  „i  -very  Mexican  State.  He 
red  himself,  his  property,  and 
:  great  idea  of  his  life- the   e 


ernment  of  Mexico,  in  recognition  of  his  abiliiy  ni 
long  service  in  behalf  of  his  country,  as  Special 


I  States,  to  seek  aid  for 


friends,  and  ho  has  succeeded  in  creating  in  the 
American  people  a  great  sympathy  for  his  cause. 
As  agent  for  his  Government  he  has  negotiated 
with  an  American  banking  house  for  the  sale  of  the 
bonds  of  the  Republic  of  Mexico,  which  meet  with 


hoped  that  he  will  return  bearing  to  his  Govern- 
merit  the  fruits  of  his  long  and  faithful  efforts,  in 
material  aid,  such  as  may  speedily 'enable  the  Re- 
public of  Mexico  to  rid  herself  of  her  enemies. 
Having  received  his  early  education  in  an  Ameri- 
can college  he  has  become  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  American  character;  and  as  he  speaks  fluent- 
ly the  English  language,  is  particularly  qualified 
to  discharge,  with  credit  to.BB>self  and  his  Gov- 
ernment, the  arduous  duties  of  his  responsible  posi- 


limits  of  those  States.  It  is  gratify  in 
that  Ids  efforts  in  behalf  of  bis  people  i 
with  great  success,  end  that  a  lively  ini 

oppressed  und  struggling  countrymen. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  13,  18R6, 


Januaiiy  13.  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


Greenwich.  Mcai 
inl8G0.  G,885,72-l  i 
ar*17.:..82i,i;.::»,  ' 

of  whicll  523,431  wore  i 

o.'t;i-c-'.i[f  population  nt"  imc  i 
number  i>f  bales  ol'iottoii  pro 


va.us  uru  mtvi^il.lo  for  steamboats  far  inland. 

a  .listanci  of  10(1  miles,  nu.l  is  navii.-al.lo  from 

s  Cull  of  Mexico  to  Columbus,  Georgia.     The 

inctawhnlcllee,  r.*cani'.ia.  anil  IVrtlitl  >  rivers  a;a 

.;  in.lv  oilier  slft-ani.  <n  i...to  llmvi..-  ...h'Iv      i.-n- 

e  northeast  in  Trim  ss-c.      Mobile  llav.  :l  I  miles 

extent.  i<  ono  of  tbo  lar.-cst  ol  Die  inlets  of  tins 

miles  olong  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 

Al.l.a.n.  i.rnii.ifiith  an  airriraltural  Sta'e,  ami 

,1mv.  lai.'clv  i-o:t...i,   la. lull  c.ir.i,  wliea  .  or. 

io  rcrain  crops  acconling  to  tlio  census  of  18(10, 

a--,    wheat,   1,218,444    liuslicls    proilaccil ;    rye, 

.I-.7;    In.li.in   corn,   :l.l.-_>> :.  2*2 ;   liarlev,  ]j,130; 

eUl.  at.     1:117:     ...its.     li^JU'J;     lire,      llU.liia 

Ml    I-,  a.  4:1:1."!;.   ate... '.' :J  "!  1  |...:,,„U.  vr.,,,1, 

■..!:;.  e  •tl..-.i.  OX'.I.OOa  1  ale-  ..F  III"  p.anuls  eacll , 

.lib- re  were  mail  .1.-  .:::■;  .11  ....  „i  »,„  ■    l.„u.  i. 

128,478 pounds;  eliee-r.  la, 02  1 ,  -n  air.  ll.i  l.n;s- 

■■»'»  "'    "'" "">-  fad':    nmla.se.,  Hn.ll..  g.l- 

DENtTO  JUAREZ,  rUtSiUUfr  OH  lUUta-mionounUB  M 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


>  that  of  Vic*- President,     Com- 

bt:  Home  Department  until  the  coup  d'ilut  of  Com- 
>  scout,  overtbnawing  the  Constitution,  and  pro- 
■I  limins  a  new  dictatorship,     Juabbz  loft  the  city 

iiiy  to  the  provisions  of  the  Constitution.  Ho  es- 
tablished the  seat  of  Government  at  Querotaro, 
t.uauajuato,  and  Guadalajara,  and,  finally,  at  Vera 
Cruz,  where  ho  wns  acknov  Judged  by  the  United 
States  as  the  lawful  ruler  of  Mexico.  Tiio  Capital 
of  the  Republic  and  some  cities  were  in  possesion 
of  Miramox  and  Zuloaoa,  but  the  majority  of  tho 
country  obeyed  tho  Government  of  Juarez.     At 


VeraC 


Church,  declaring  I 
be  national  properi 

and  suppiessing  the 


ul    La  Sok-ihul  to      111,-     b. 
Hvndi    pk'iiipuh'iili.ini'H 


indthe 


iv.Jied  ti  li.-w  Cun- 


Holiday  Presents. 

Worth  $500,000! 

I    BE    SOLDAT    ONE    DOLLAR    £ai 
WITHOUT  REGARD  TO  VALUE, 

SPLENDID  LIST  OP  ARTICLES. 


EMBALMING. 


man.     He  professes  republicai 

princii.lt;*.  and  has 

been  righteous  in  the  fulfillment  of  bis  duty       He 

is  generally  esteemed  and  respected  even  by  his 

enemies,  who  acknowledge  the 

acter  and  tho  goniiiiienejs  ul  1 

ejada  for  Foreign 

and   Interior    Affairs,   and   Mr 

Yqlbsias  lor  the 

'Jreasurv  and  Jti-liuu  Dqmrh.t 

nin^  ol  t'ns  war  the  I'rciidi'iil  w 

s  invested  bv  Con- 

grjss  with  extraordinary  |hm\t 

fore  ftflly  authorized  to  lew  ar 

at  home  and  abroad,  and  ratify  treaties  with  loreign 

powers.     Tho   onlv   restriction 

authoritvare  tbo.e  which  fWlm 

tional  territory,  to  change  the 

orm  of  Republican 

of  Mexico. 

MATIAS  ROMERO. 

Mr.  Matias  Romsro  is  a  ua 

iye  of  the  State  of 

ment  of  the  Secreturv  of  State,  following  the  Cc-n- 
itltutional  Government  to  Vera  Cruz. 

He  came  to  the  United  States  as  Second  Secre- 
tary of  the  Mexican  Legation  under  Minister  Mata. 


San  Luis  Potosi  Mr.  Ro: 


Do  not  Waste  yocr  MOXKT  buying  any  of  tl.c 
numerous  worthless  articles  called  Gold  Pkks 
which  have  flooded  the  market  for  the  la^t  few 
years,  when  at  lower  prices  you  can  get  pens  whicl 
are  acknowk'd.ed  to  be  the  Uest  is  the  World. 

Avoid  the  shameless  Upstarts,  whose  lack  of 
brains  compels  them  to  attempt  Imitation,  eien  U 
the  adteniiement.  If  you  want  the  full  value  ol 
your  money,  call  on  A.  Morton,  25  Maiden  Lane. 
New  Yoik,  or  inclose  stamp  for  circular. 


To  Lady  Readers.—  An  entirely 
of  learning  French  cheaply,  quicklv 
oughlv,  and  to  speak,  it  fluently  in  tlir 
Dr.  H.  Carlos,  Linguist  ond'Profes 
tore,  2lfJ  La-t  Fifty-^cond  Street. 


ADVERIT^.MLN  I  .-i 


14^t  DOMIC  VALENTINES 

Mailed  free  on  receipt  of  ft     B.  W.  UITCIICOUC,  U 
Chuaun  St ,  New  York. 


S-T-1860-X. 

Drakp's  Plantation  Bitters. 

Th.y  jini'lfy,  ;,u  -in-tlieii,  mid  Invigorate. 


THE  ILLUSTRATED 

PHRENOLOGICAL   JOURNAL. 

S.  K.  WELLS,  Editor. 

"THE  HUMAN  FACE  DIVINE,"— A  NewSyutem  of 


The  Study  of  Man,  in  all  his  Relations; 

•liv  ic.illy.  Im. -II. dually,  .\ioj-ally,  tmd  Socially. 

■,  The  Natural  Hi,toi-v  of  Man, 


Physiology,  The  Laws  of  Lite,  Dietetic: 

Phrenology.— The  Brain  and  its  Functions, 

Physiognomy,  with  *' Si^ns  of  Character, 
Biography.— With  Portraits  and  Practical 
Miscellaneous.— Churches,  Schools,  Pris- 

TUIM.-.-A  new  V..lu.iw,  the  4J.1,  commence,  w 


A  NEW  LIBRARY    OF  i\IEs:.iEKl>OI  AM  > 


'.'  .riij.;i:h-     I  u       I'iiilom  H'm     < 


_  _  [January  13,  1866. 
MOREHEAD'S 

MAGNETIC  PLASTER, 

THE  GREAT  STRENGTHENER  AND 

PALN  DESTROYER. 
The  best  and  cheapest  Honeenold  remedy  In  tlie  world. 

Simple  and  |ika=ii    t  in  it-  ui>p,i,  -ilim.  cerlisiu  unci  ..fk-ct- 

li.i-  viiiiiflied.    The  lJla--ter  mm.-neiijej  ihe  i'nin  away,  and 

rus  l'an  \iir  i  v-r  wm  itt:  this  plaster 


',:'.'■  "  ';■■■, v"  i/'"'  '"■  i ;■  v:1"-11  "'1 l "M'*< 

I  ■■■'  '    ■'■:■!   .\'  ■'    ■  ■■■    .  v.  r.    i..h  i  ■■!■■    I  '.IMl   I'tA  II   l,>     i:i 
III1-'   I'.  *:U.   r.iih    ■    inn.     ,.,.,.,-.    I'l  KMAM'.MLV 

'   I    1:1 1 :.,-i.  ■!    u,i)  ,..„,-   ol    [I,-    MAtiXLTlU 

I'l.V.-TI   I.,      it  i-fh-    i..iM-  -r,   ■ =  1,  ..f.-l.!.!...  uiii^t, 

■■■      ■■■!      ■'    ■■<>   .  ;:-      "■'  '   :    ■!■'»■-  ^ '  -    M--'.n"r,, 

:u,.i     !!;,■    (.■    !,1-    iMIa  ht.        It      11.,.    j,    acr-'.b!.--    :u,   i    f.,!U..ut 


1'ii-ii.  nh.ily 


i 


OCCUPATION 


t  of  lamps  for  return  pes: 


HOLIDAY  PRESENTS. 

Splendid  Jewelry, 

Watches,   Diamonds,   &  c. 

The  house  of  DOSANQUET,  GIRAUD,  &  CO.,  Pari?, 

J      K  for  the  sale  of^heir 


i  Warranted  Gold  of  tho  Finest 

.  advantage  of  i 


THE  STOCK   C0MPRIS3S 

Waiches,  Kings  »et  with  lJir.:.M..n-l  ,  Kuli,'  ,  Iv'm  iCl^'r- 
SL-i  .  i.lJovrli-y.tjmpri-iii-l'iTi-  nud  l-.rU'-nin;    ol  ill.   nn-t 


iii-tid.-.  of  ,iL',v,lty,  im.i  1. 1  IhVi.'t 


1  by  Mew'  JAQLi'.'l  ',  '.;Ti  ]i;LI.mV'  £\\  I '  IY> 


n!;v,;::"." 


N.   s    \    .i  ,. 


-Ni-w  i,    tnin.-iu   (:i..T.-r-;iiiK  u>  tin;  lieceneiou  of  Ur.  J.  J. 

>:,..■  I....  h\  ■.-.  !M;  -i  hiii/nin.-.-ry  Word  foi--»vor.1  Ki.-l    i> 

linynry  Ti-.in-lntiui),  on   ill.-  lU-uling^  ..t    limiiumi  Urili, 
irniiw  nud  l-.Xi-l!in-.l..ry  lout  ,Notud,  tiii.J  m   n..()iou.-  !*.■!.■< 


\UR  new  «  Speclnl 


il-wurd  id'  iV.j-tj-  i 


THE  WONDER  OF  THE  AGE. 


.  HELMBOLD,  DrueBi.1, 


MAGIC  INK. 


Get  the  Best!    Get  the  Best! 
200,000  ^ARTICLES 

TO  BE  SOLD  AT 

Only  One  Dollar  Each! 

COMPKISINQ 

Watches,  Chains,  Silverware,  Jewelry, 
Gold  Pens,  Diamonds,  Lockets,  &o. 

Worth  over  $1,000,000! 

We  shall  Sell  all  thess  Articles  at  SI  each. 


Diamonds,  Pins,  Rioca,  t 


Wi'Uihf.ir !i,!,.,  I,,  .r;l.  u  li-.-.a.  . 


AGENTS  WANTED 


Pimples  on  the  Face 


AOH'S    SERPENTS. 

Mi  com.,  by  s.  c.   ll'U.UI,  %■■   South  Eigbtli  street, 
Iphia.    The  Trede  mpplied. 

THE  HORACE  WATERS  Grand,  Sqimrr,  and  Upri^lit 
I'l  \NO-,  MEI.iiDI.iiNS.  and  l  ALUM. T  uCUASS, 

■r  I.      M-mllily  inynii'lll.   rr'nd^i.,1  |„r  tlie  diLiiii'.      S  r- 
HOItACE  WATERS. 


'.  ..ii'..V  .'■. . .",('    ii,'..p,'„' 


II 


«;■;::;  ti 


it  once  we  give  a  lin..  Uvc-U^ttled  llevulving  .:![■/« 
.  TOWNSEND  ^COj  Manufacturing  Jewelers, 


HARPER  &  BROTHERS,  New  Yobk, 
Have  Just  Published: 
SOCIAL  LIFE  OF  THE  CHINESE:  With  aome  Ac- 
radViinelf Cu».rniS  SS 


l'Jmo.  Cloth,  Iteveled  Edges,  SB  00. 
IOTBS  FI10M  PLYMOUTH  PULPIT:  A  Collection  of 

w'lTl.'i'i  'r'liT  ''tv'ii""    "'  """"'"  "'    '"  X'!'' 

'RISON  LIFE  IN  THE  SOUTH :  at  Richmond.  Macon 

i'so'l  „'o'i"|;ik""ll,-  A,l,.r'A"'V.im:i,tUenLfeii'traant1« 
N...V  J    ik  lirr.g. ,..     Illutralid.     Umo,  et.'.ii,  Beva. 


January  13,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


CONSTITUTION 

LIFE    SYRUP, 

COMPOSED   OF 

IODIDE  POTASSIUM, 

with  tite  compoune 


WILLIAM  H.  GRI5QG,  M.D., 
iraduate   of   the    College    of  Physicians   and 
Surgeons,  New   York,  formerly  Assistant 
Physician  in  the   Blackwell's  Island 
Hospitals,  late  Medical  Inspector 
of  the  New  York  State  Vol- 
unteer   Depots,    under 
Governor  Edwin  D. 
Morgan. 


I  <    Ml   n 


RAPIDITY  OF  CURE. 

I".   Hi     •'    !    x.  r,-(, ,|.i:)Uv  |ir<H  •  ■;  -  cl  N.. 
'III--  in   our  ivply:    In  I,.,,,!!,  ,!,.    |>,.!v,  |n.c 


CONSTITUTU   N    LIFE   SYRUP 

Irnii.viilve  oral  ..pec. no  rem    ly  for  alldiaeaaea  originating 
I.;-.,  uu  Itll-INIE  STATU  1  ['THE  BLOOD,  and  for  uU 


,i...-.        till    .■■;■■■.■,■.    |,„|U.    ||f_  ,,, 
RHEDMATISM. 


CONSTITUTION  LIFE  SYRUP 

T'n;,;  .  the    ly.t.m  .-iiiirely  IV.m.i   nil  U,e  evil  efftcla  of 

■in  '    i'.  in ring  the  Had  Breath,  and  cium.  H...  W,    1, 

I    It  1  1       '  ,  I        11        li 

CONSTITUTION    I_,IP\E    SYRUP 

Eradicates,  root  and  branch,  all  Eruptive  Diaeases  of  the 

ULCERS,  PIMPLES,  BLOTCHES, 


Constitution  Life  Syrup. 


THE  RICH  AND  POOR 


Euy  it,  Take  it,  and  be  Cured. 

WILLIAM  H,  GREGG,  M.D., 
Sole  Proprietor, 

NEW  YORK. 


MORGAN  &  ALLEN, 
OLESALE     DRUGGISTS,    AGENTS, 

No.  46  CUff  Street,  Now  York. 


.n>'INS..\   nnLLOWAY&cnWnF.N.Phi 

oi.niiui  c.  coomvix  &  1:0.,  not.  a, ; 

FULLER,  FINCH    i    11.1. 1  1  n.  .'!,.,,.,,  | 
JOHN  D.  PARK,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
CuLLINS  BROTHERS,  St.  L.ula. 


THE  DAYS 

OF 

BRASS  JEWELRY 
Are  Over, 

THE  COSMOPOLITAN 

JEWELERS'  ASSOCIATION, 

Capital,  82,500,000. 
Great  One-Prico  Gold  Salo. 

Sell  no  Brass  or  so-called  Plated 

JEWELRY. 

WARRANT  ALL  JEWELRY  GOLD, 

OR  NO  SALE. 


Worth  $2,500,000, 


iNstmiNQ  Tew  Dollaes  WoBTrt  fob  S3. 

r  Ton  Pboop— We  guarantee  to  send  any  euatome 
xchange  for  the  least  article  they  may  got  for  $2, 
mild  richly  cluued  or  engraved  silver  BlMtr-Dkh  < 
or,  A,,,.  ,,,„,,.,  „,,„rf  „,  $10i  or  „  to„Wul  ra.pi( 
morocco  Photograph  Album,  valued  at  $d ;  and  yon 
t  a  possibility  of  getting  a 

Fine  Gold  Watch  or  Piano. 

nd  25  cents  for  the  Golden  Envelope,  containing  val. 
e  receipts  and  songs ;  and  cno  of  the  sealed  Cortiurutea, 
ill  are  well  mixed  aud  taken  out  regarClesa  of  choice, 


HOLIDAY  PRESENT. 

FIRST     PREMIUM 

IMPROVED 

dJE   SEWING   frC 
3)3    MACHINE.    «P3 

The  Embodiment  of  Practical  Utility 
and  Ejrtromo  Simplicity. 

Orirnna»ppa«.iteI.U„„l:t,lsr.:;  ,„,,„,„,  >„„„,„,,„,. 

m-'^hm'^im  ;;::,;*'::  ";l,,!,'1"'!!'\''1"'i'"ix'; 


'">!.dw,^up?lk',•  *  ™,™ ,'  1 ' "  -      <     ' 

Idl      withe  "'  "'"  "''  "    '  V'"  "■'"  '  ''' 

I'"   '    ,'|-.l.,.l  in  I.. .,'«„!,  p,'ia|l!,l'ii,",'i,',',l'i!r!",'!,n  ',',,'. ',','., 

1.1  Hi.- pn...,  i,5    ,^,,i... »,/... ■,,,,.„  „■,.„..,,,/.    At.,.llt ,„, 

1   VMIl.t    in     ,   SI  WINT1    MACHINE  COMPANY, 


Silver  Napkin  Ring,  1 


■  $10,  tylth  a  Gold  Double 


Knglish  Magazines,  Periodicals,  and 

Hi*  IV  p 


Youth  and  Beauty  Restored 

To  the  gray-headed  by  the  use  of 
Webster's  Vegetable  Hair  Intrigorator. 


PARLOR 
ORGANS. 


CHARLES  FRAE. 


Brandrcth's  Fills. 

COSTIVENESS,  DIARRHOEA. 


The  Great  American.  Consumptive 
Remedy. 

DR.  WM.  HALL'S 
BALSAM  FOR  THE  LUNGS 

Consumption,  Decline,  ABthma,  Bronchitis, 
Wasting  of  Flesh,  Night  Sweats,  Spitting  of 
Blood,  Whooping  Cough,  Difficulty  of  Breath- 
ing,  Cough,  Croup,  Influenza,  Phthisic,  Pain 


CHRISTMAS  GIFT. 

A  SCIENTIFIC  WONDER. 

EUROPEAN  POCKET 

TIMEKEEPER. 

ONE    DOLLAR    EACH. 

PATI.NT  APPLIED  FOR,  Juno  2->.  1885      ' 


I  Family  Medicine 
CO.,  Proprietors, 


To  the  Printers  of  the  U.  States, 

Tlie   Hriikr.iigueil,  Win,;  the  ..ritual  ioventor  of  the 


n:li  ■[.  I  II       I        I,.,.!'       Any  |  1  I 

IMIIIMILHS   Hie    i',..|i.ciiii[lv    in!.., ii„.  I    l.h:-l    I   !l,„ll 


New  Sheet  Music-Choi ie  and  DeBirable 

11V  Miiril  1  ivi-i  SW'I  I  r  1;,  10.1-BY.  Ballad.  Keller, 
dol!>lme>u  Bo'  cts.  I  HAVE  LlsTLNi'l  >  '  1  i'.ii  lli'i; 
tUiil.-TI.I'S.  S...  •!  ri.1,0.  K.ll.r,  30  cts.  1 
HAVE  NO  .101  BUT  IN  THY  SMILE.  Ballad.  /,.'- 
ter,  30  cts.     COT  WIILtlE  'nil.:  01. Li  FOLKS  tin  l> 

"      it-.     KISS  Ml     11 

mmUdCitS  cts.     sent 


!',',.'.i,'..i'.'. 


.  i.c.-iptof  inicsby  (II. 1\  I..11  HI  IS...;',. 


rilmemedi 


Fifty  Cents  per  Bottle. 


U^/I,.I,.I,oh.  t'uiTr.ily...,,  i,  .„  iv.l  -m  I  h.<  nm  I  itpp.ovcd 
^":M'1.''!"  IV^vu-i.l.-.    „,„1  wmrniiic..!  l„  UinOTE  S-.LaH 

Tiun  will,  ul,  r.lntL-  LLTLiiniy  ;m.|  tho  utmost  precision. 
up ^nevk^Vs  "To"8'  Iye''"ll'ea  N°  KSY  °r  windiD8 
I'lic-'t  ■i''"'i  hltr":h,l'e'.1  '  "''■''  illil  '"l""iy  t  s>>m)  I.M..  ... 

country,  on   u-cwli.t   ni    i» i  . ■         .-■,!,.   ,(,  \\vevr  '._■  mir ce.l 

l.OHtllVOl    lMl'.l..l,tt-,vi|l,,iil,;|„t,.||1j:,   H.li'fi-n;.'IIK'll,.   \Y  i  I  I  I 

iVi'i,".!'1  ii'-'iuiu'i"  "'■ ''  N"  ■ l"  "ii",iiri': "  "-■■'■',<'-'  ""''■■ 


PUBLISHED  TIILS  DAY: 

FROM  ADVA.NCi:  l'l  0    P-SllEIiTS, 

COMMON  SENS& 


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l,r  hta  lca.lT. 

-  alrlcl  Hi..  1 

epinB  (or  Peace)  reU 

in  r. 

mil  a  powerful  anil  il 

nd  declared  hlmaclf 

.,.i..i- 

them.     In  1*53  even  .lie  threat  city 

,  ipkAl.iiml  nrarly 'ItovoTiksWa? 
era  to  ntarvutlon.  !n  this  emergent 
hiof  computed  .i  doxology,  which  w 


■  r.vii  l  I-"r.n:ce  iint]  Kn-hiinl )  m.il  Mir  r 
or,  which  terminated  in  1HG0,  they  o 
iselves  with  plundering  the  region  ul> 


Ningpo,  and  butchered 


|.lo,. 


f   (.llVI'VIII 


MlLili-llofiillfT-   WC1 


on!  Wari>,  who  wns  mortally  wounded  Scpte-inhcr 
20,  18G2,  ia  an  engagement  with  the  Tueping*  near 

NillRpO. 

'lhcTnopings  retains!  their  capital,  though  I  hey 
lost  the  important  city  of  Soochow  December  6, 
1KU3.  There  was  a  general  massacre  of  Taepings 
upon  the  fall  of  thecitv,  verv  much  like  that  which 
recently  fallowed  the  Jamaica  riots.  The  war  was 
continued  in  (864,  The  Tappings  lost  whole  prov- 
inces 'Mid  largo  numbers  of  prisoners,  but  they  were 
reiiii'.iiied,  and  traveled  without  provisions,  drvasta- 
tiufctho  villages  and  committing  frightful  atrocities 
in  their  march,  showing  no  mercy  even  to  foreign- 
er,.     Finally,  however,   N on,  Lit,  rul..-l  capital, 

was  taken  by  the  Imperialists  July  19,  1864. 
Cavsa  Wrxi;,  the  highest  military  chief  of  the 
Taepings,  was  aiso  captured,  and  waa  "cut  into  a 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 

Satdkiut,  January  20,  1806. 


THE  PRESIDENTS  POSITION. 

THOSE  who  aro  disposed  to  considor  the 
President's  action  in  relieving  his  l'so vi- 
sional Governors,  nnd  authorizing  thoso  lately 
elected  in  the  Southern  States  to  exercise,  their 


gross. 

What  was  the  problem  ho  offered  to  the  un- 
organized States?  It  was  to  present  to  Con- 
gress n  form  of  government  which  Congress 
could  properly  recognize  us  Republican ;  and 
it  was  essential  to  its  complete  presentation  that 
it  could  bo  seen  in  operation.     Therefore  he 

tion.     But  he  has  neither  promised  that  Con> 
gress  itiaU  recognize  them  as  fully  satisfactory 


Kit  because  they  have  acquiesced  and  be- 
speedy  civil  governments  art  desirable, 
ore  the  troops  should  be  withdrawn  and 
hole  matter  left  in  the  hunds  of  the  nc- 
■ent  mass.  On  the  contrary,  he  h  of opin- 
at  for  a  long  time  there  must  be  a  mili- 
"  m  of  these  States. 
)  President,     lie  authorizes  the 


Governors  to  e 


rust  of  the  President  which  np- 
quarters  is  wholly  unjustifiable. 
certainly  beyond  suspicion.  His 
freedmen  is  proved.  He  has  his 
if  the  status  of  the  States,  of  the 
his  power,  end  of  the  wisest  policy 
igh 


on.     Bi 

filing,   w, 


him  when  he  t 


he  nb-uliiie  control  of  the  late  masters. 

BAD  NEWS  FOR  THE  BULLS. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  has  not  yet 
ommenced  to  attempt  to  contract  the  cur- 
ency,  though  a  better  time  at  which  to  try  the 

•resent,  money  being  very  easy,  Five-Twenties 
u  good  demand,  and  business  generally  pros- 
lint  the  downward  turn  in  prices  which  was  to 
nsue  from  the  inauguration  of  the  policy  of 
ontraction  may  perhaps  not  wait  for  that  event. 
There  are  ominous  signs  in  the  financial  sky; 
ig  interpreted,  they  mean  that  about  these 
days  it  may  be  well  to  beware  of  stocks. 

M  the  first  place,  the  receipts  of  the  railroads 

diminishing.    The  Chicago  and  Hock  Island 

fell  off  $118,000  in  December;  the  Michigan 

Southern  $42,000;    the  Chicago  and  North 

Western  $17,000.      It  is   reported  that  the 

clino.    But  as  all  shippers  are  aware  that  freights 
have  been  reduced  from  2  5   to  4o  per  cent. 


at,  with  a  very  hand- 
eeipts  in  i865,  there 

Erie  Directors  ac- 
»  the  Legislature, 

■  u'ni's  ago  to  80  per  cent,  now,  though 


PSJSHiantal.     It  w,ll  l,c  so  in  any  ca.se.    Whal- 
ed, or  pledges  required  and  given,  the  work 

closely  and  carefully  watched.     Thus  General 
(iBAKx  s&ys  that  he  is  persuaded  the  great  body 


blend  of  Jan.  1866,  passed  that  too,  notwit 
Hiding  gross  earnings  ot  nearly  @5,ooo,oo 
3  Cleveland  and  Pittsburg  Directors,  wl 
o  year-  ago,  were  lii  inly  persuaded  ilia!  Hi 
uld  nnd  ought  to  pay  10  percent,  every  yc 
their  stockholders,  confess  that  4  per  cet 
the  most  they  can  pay,  and  to  pay  that, 
uc  of  $1,000,000  new  stock  is  necessar 
c  Chicago  and  North  Western  Directors,  w 
-iinl  the  public  in  their  report  only  a  yc 
o  thai  their  preferred  stock  was  as  certuii 
iidcu. (hearing  as  any  stock  in  the  count! 
,-  the  falldividend  withoutudi,5cnticiitvoi. 
These  are  ominous  facts— and  not  the  less 
:causc  they  can  be  accounted  for  on  very  si 
e  principles.  Within  the  past  threo  ye, 
cry  thing  in  the  country  has  advanced  in  c 
-cept  railway  fares  antl  freights.      Every  thi 


incut;  c\ cry  uten-il  and  even-  product  o 
dustry ;  labor  that  is  skilled,  and  nnskillc 
bur,  has  advanced  from  5o  to  200  per  cei 
cost.  Mono  among  all  purchasable  coi 
dities  railway  travel  and  railway  freights 


93  So 

iron  which  cost  $45  a  ton  now  c 

*-S; 

vood  which  cost  $275  per  cord  now  c 

*45o, 

n'ling  a    -|u;.k1y  development  of  g 

traffic, 

i,.:l  rotei|it<  ,-li.nild  la  11  Mir.   and  >!,. 

the  December  decline  in  gross  receipts  c 

.'aaa-xalinj;  in'jiit  h>,  it  will  not  be  s 

prising 

if  some  of  our  railway  companies 

come  once  more  bankrupt. 

Thi 

Wall  Street  for  a  month  or  more 

igaged  in  speculating  1"'-  lite  rise  in 

leadin 

I'iti-I. 

rg,  which  sold  in  April  and  Mav 

0  4& 

cent.  , 

Fori  Wanie,  uhi.-h  sold  at  87,  touc 

st  month?  of  i366  were  destined  t 
active  speculation  in  stocks,  base 
!  of  money  ;  and  the  remarkable  dc 


i  Erio  i 


ng  spu- 


es accumulated 
Irie  in  the  street,  while  other  leading  opera- 
di-s  have  bought  all,  or  nearly  all  the  Cleveland 
nd  Pittsburg,  the  Itock  Island,  the  New  York 
Central,  etc. 

Should  the  expected  speculative  fever  break 
out;  should  the  public,  notwithstanding  the 
decline  in  net,  and,  in  some  instances,  in  gross 
receipts,  and  in  the  face  of  the  imminent  pros- 
pect of  currency  contraction,  undertake  tc  buy 
stocks  for  the  rise,  these  various  combinations 
stand  ready  to  supply  the  demand  at  a  not  ex- 
t  prices.     On  the 


other  hand,  should 
tofore,  for  at  least  sixty  days,  to  stand  aloof 
from  stock  speculations,  and  should  real  hold- 
era  of  railway  stocks,  alarmed  by  the  increase 
of  expenses  and  the  reduction  of  dividends, 
determine  to  convert  them  into  money,  the  va- 
cliques  which  have  secured  such  large 
ities  of  floating  stock  would  be  placed  in 
ibarrassing  position.  Forced  realizations 
probabh    involve   a   decline  ofl5  or  zo 


• -iv  pi-oniiMiiK  Mian  n  may  ai 
itsiders.  Such  publicity  ha< 
unpromising  condition  of  the 
aat  a  large  number  of  profes- 
s  have  already  begun  to  sell 


of  5  (5 

ceive  large  accet 

scale  on  which  speculnti. 

in  Wall  Street,  it  is  not 

pose  that  the  sales  of  the 
exceed  the  capacity  of  t 
would,  by  the  ncee^itie. 
themselves.      In    two  d* 

and  Pittsburg  changed   b 

t  his  scale,  a  shrewd  iiiana 


trkct,  and  they 
1    5th  and  6th 


that,  in  *pitc  ■ 
and  Other  ndvt 


intrinsic  values,  a 
dicious  operators 
they  have  not  got 


.  It  stands  to  reason  t 
j  stock  after  another,  i 
ning  traffic,  tight  mon 


din  have  Mild  short  thai  which 
and  may  not  be  able  to  get. 
e  arc  times  when  the  public 
tWall  Street  burv  ii-.  dead. 


nd  those  who  sell,  on  speenhuie 
nances  equally  against  them.  B< 
re  will  not  risk  much  by  selling  the 


ii.led    • 


Gi.     Yet  the   espouses  - 
nearly  doubled.     Labor 

labor  which  cost  $a  a 


You 


Their 


unsuccessful,  and  they  are  now  will 
nment  other  than  the  military  rule  of 
d  States.  It  h  the  duty  of  the  Un 
;  to  supply  that  government.  In  the 
liminaiy  steps  to  that  end  the  organic  lav 
~tate  before  rebellion  mny  be  wisely 
I.  The  reorganization  may  he  iutn: 
:  same  tody  that  disorganized,  bin 


tipply  the  qu. 
rhe  amendme 
of  Presi 


htti.ilh 


s  of  the  people.  This,  with 
ie  Emancipation  Amendment,  would  discharge 
ie  whole  duty  of  the  nation  to  its  dependent 
ards. 

The  Governor  opposes  the  proposed  amend- 
ent  apportioning  representation  to  voters 
ion  two  grounds.  First,  it  is  repugnant  to 
ie  true  republican  principle  to  base  represent- 


ed be  overlooked.     The  intention  of  the 

iment  is  to  do  by  an  appeal  to  the  love  of 

political  power  what  could  not  ni'henvise,  itwus 

ht,  be  effected  except  by  a  direct  act  of 

t-'orimcss,  which   it  was   supposed   could   not 

curry  the  country,  and  in  which  the  nnorgan- 

;d  States  would  not  acquiesce.    The  assump- 

n  of  the  amendment  is,  that  to  retain  or  in- 

;ase  their  political  power  the  whites  of  the 

uth  would  enfranchise  the  blacks.    The  quea- 

•n  is,  would  they  do  so?     In  South  Carolina, 

■  instance,  as  Governor  Andkew  asks,  would 

;  whites,  for  the  sake  of  doubling  the  repre- 


oftset  them  by  another  three  ?    This  is  a  fai* 

be  only  a  temporary  question.  With  the  lapse 
of  time  and  the  necessary  political  develop- 
ment of  society  in  a  free  government  the  spirit 
of  caste  is  weakened,  and  gradually  disappears; 
while  with  the  unused  basis  of  political  power 
at  hand  in  half  the  population,  parties  would 
inevitably  arise,  and  the  party  of  equal  enfran- 
-.!.  -einent  would  finally  prevail. 

In  this  country  the  political  disability  which 
springs  from  the  spirit  of  caste  merely,  is  sure 


whether,  nhile  we  <;clt  ml  everv  pci 
iiKln>n-inl  right  of  the  lreed:-icn,  we 
to  make  it  appear  to  be  the  imeie-t  o 

rights?  If  the  mere  passage  of  tl 
menr  ^■■•re  to  be  considered  a  suliicie 
of  the  just  treatment  of  the  freedn 

whites,  nnd  npon  ilicir  enforced  -'--v 
kcys  of  the  unorganised  8ta:es  wevt 
inered  into  the  hands  of  the  white 

privileg.-  ofneatinnilie  freedmen  a-  i 


should  c 


THE  LIMITS  OF  PUBLICITY. 

What  are  the  proper  limits  of  publicity 


jcci   ..t   public  report  as  r 


should  be  governed  by  mor- 


ive  descended  upon  i 


:agerly  read  .-■  _ti  descriptions,  and  the 
greedily  in  t?  j  degree  of  their  prurient 
I,  ig  very  pr^ible.    But  It  ia  net  so  mucb 


detaU,  is  very  pnjible.    But  1 


January  20,  : 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


eader  as  the  purveyor  of  s 


union  oftheu 


y  do  the  papers  :iot 
ering  daylight  upon  t 


morbid  curiosdty,  iinil  the  press  has  ch 
turn  a  1*11  rn  l.y  gratifying  it.      The  dun 

pre-.-  .vis   10   ee^-ure   and  withsiand   ih 


even-  fhing  necessary  to  the  public  moral  im 
[»-'.v"i,:,.IH  of  the  trial  could  have  been  men 
[inni-,l  ivrrhoiir  the  circumstantial  reports  \\UWh 
were  presented. 

The  immoral  influence  of  the  story  of  grea 
scoundrels,  we  will  suppose  another  paper  t( 
say,  is  in  the  fact  that  only  the  pleasant  epi 
sodes  and  not  the  dreary  and  dreadful  end  arc 
related.  But  is,  then,  an  obscene  book,  the 
history  of  an  outcast,  told  with  unshrinking  de- 
tail, the  full  daylight  turned  on  in  faithful  " 
lustrations,  if  only  the  shameful  and  destit 
death  be  likewise  portrayed,  a  high  moral 


'    M.,,:,.y.-:;t;...,    ,|.,-.    ,,„,,    ,|     i 


NO  MORE  AMERICAN 

Unless  the  Commission  whirl 


!  shall 

books  at  all.  A  more  careful  study  of"  die  fa.-:  - 
leads  us  to  the  conclusion  that  our  recent  esti 
mate  of  the  relative  cost  of  books  primed  he. 

'■'■■-'    Mi.'    .  /.'Hi--   [.,>:    I;  :    ,   ;i|ij,.'d   in   Kiichmd   t\:;s    [■ 

liberal  to  the  tureigri  printer;  we  now  judg. 
that  a  book  can  he  printed  and  published  i 

here.  Of  course,  under  such  circumstances, 
the  tariff  proves  no  obstacle  whatever  to  im- 
portations,   and    should   the   present   state  of 

of  a  few  months,  the  publication  of  America,. 
h.-'.-I-^  ■■nil  lie  reduced  f->  1  hose  works  which  can 
not  be  produced  abroad. 

It  is  understood  tha:  the  Revenue  Commis- 
si.n  i>  '.ivorable  to  a  reduction  of  the  interna] 
<■>■  ':■.'•  on  books— fifteen  in  number,  as  they 
iiave  been  calculated,  h  should  be  hoped  ilon 
ii:w  will  lose  no  time  in  laying  their  view's  he 
ioie  ('undress.  In  order  to  aid  them  in  then 
deis'.erari.-ii-,  we  present  a  single  item,  whir;, 
is  a  fair  sample  of  scores: 

The  ■>'>.-„, in/,  M.ujdzine.  is  n  periodical  pub- 
lished in  London,  the  price  being  sixpence  a 
coiy,  exclusive  of  postage.  Of  this  Mapu/an- 
10,000  copies  are  imported  for  sale  in  thi 
country,  the  importers  affirming  that  the  mark- 
et value  in  England  is  three  farthings  a  copy. 
Upon  this,  by  the  present  law,  they  pay  a  dut\ 
of  ■_')  per  cent.  — that  is,  three- fourths  of  a  far- 
thing, making  the  whole  cost  here  to  them.  dut\ 
included,  just  3J /an/u'w/x,  a  little  less  than  tw't 


|  If  this  continues,  one  of  two  things  is  denia- 
ble 'ihe  lnauuhu'ui.'e  of  bonks  hero  will  cease, 
and  the  great  amount  of  labor  involved  in  it, 
directly  and  indirectly,  must  find  other  chan- 
nels; or  the  labor  must  bo  paid  for  at  English 
'Starvation  rates.''  Practically,  both  results 
will  ensue.  Three-fourths  of  our  printers  will 
he  out  of  employment,  and  the  others  will  re- 
ceive p:iy  at  British  rates  and  all  for  the 
benefit  of  our  British  friends. 


THE  HEALTH  OF  THE  CITY". 

Three  facts  compel  the  attention  of  every 
citizen  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  interest 
the  whole  country.  Tho  cholera  is  at  hand, 
the  city  is  in  the  condition  most  favorable  to 
its  ravages  ,  and  there  is  no  hope  of  relief  from 
the  city  itself.  These  three  facts  very  .impress- 
ively suggest  a  fourth— (hat  if  the  State  docs 
not  savo  as  the  city  will  not  escape  the  worst 
fury  of  the  pestilence. 

Governor  Fkstox,  in  his  admirable  Message 
to  the  Legislature,  reminds  us  that  the  sanitary 
caro  of  the  city  is  now  confided  to  two  separate 
Boards,  one  of  which  is  composed  of  the  Mayor 
and  Common  Council ;  the  other  of  tho  Mayor 
ind  the  Commissioners  of  Health.    The  powers 

official  term  of  its  members.  Mayor  HoWiTAN, 
in  Ids  Message,  says  that  it  has  not  met  for  a 
long  time,  and  he  sees  no  reason  why  it  should 
bo  convened.  The  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
Health  is  composed  of  the  Mayor,  the  City  In- 
spector, the  President  of  each  Board  of  the 
Common  Council,  Health  Officer  of  the  Port, 
Resident  Physician,  and  Health  Commissioner, 
and  this  Board,  the  Mayor  thinks,  will  bo  able 
to  accomplish  all  that  may  be  required  of  it. 
His  Honor  is  also  of  opinion  that  the  sanitary 
care  of  the  city  should  not  be  intrusted  to  a 
■•tale  Commission. 

Governor  Fenton,  on  tho  contrary,  thinfcs 
that  the  success  of  the  Metropolitan  Police  Law 
and  of  the  paid  Fire  Department  "furnish  a 

vision  for  protecting  the  public  health  of  the 
seme  populous  territory."  In  conformity  with 
tliis  suggestion,  Senator  Axdrews  has  intro- 
duced a  Metropolitan  Health  Bill.  It  has  been 
prepared  with   the  utmost  care,  and  includes 


done  to  American  institutions,  and  of  no  coarser 
insult  to  himself,  than  tho  obsequious  adulation 

ot  the  President  winch  is  hvjs'ied  upon  him  by 


MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  THE  WAR. 

^"VS1  aml  dll,*°DC0  of  th°  Surgical  and 

-Medical  Department  .,(  the  army  dmttig  the 
war  nee  illustrated  in  the  circulars' lutclv  issued 
by  tho  Surgeon-General.  The  amount  and 
.-nine  of  statistics  carefully  collected  arc  very 

rrcat,  and  the  mass  of  facts  is  reported  us  much 


The  medical  stafT  of  thi 
of  a  surgeon-general,  an  as 

end,  and  medical  inspector-general;    16  I 

Cftl  inspectors ;  170  surgeons  a 

gcons  of  tho  regular  army  ;   3(1 


J^SJ^pT^SAS 


;^i,,,^^f,i 


I'  (he  lai-."->1 


parly   of   |.,.| 

tical   science 

Thc< 


■  I  has  pro-vc.d  to  he  mo,f  cMeet- 
geous.  It  is  the  work  of  nc 
ins  or  speculators,  but  of  the 
!  of  men  of  the  highest  prac- 
ts  aim  is  the  security  of  the 
t  without  intrigue  or  delay. 


cnl  action.  There  is  really  no  hope  whatever 
from  purely  municipal  agencies,  and  without 
denying  the  abstract  truth  of  Mayor  Hoffman's 
remark,  that  the  city  should  takecare  of  its  own 
health,  it  is  enough  to  say  that  no  well-informed 

or  \w\\  hike  the  iiece.-siiry  caro. 

The  bill  was  defeated  last  year;    but  tin 

2  cholera  will,  we  believe,  se 

present  passage  without  serious  delay 

Should  it  fail  again,  the  city  of  New  York  wil 

he  literclly  left  to  its  own  destruction. 


kecpors.  There  were  202  general  hospitals, 
with  130,894  beds  for  patients.  More  than  a 
million  of  patients  were  treated  in  these  hos- 
pitals, of  whom  but  one  in  twelve  died;  and 

the  general  sanitary  condition  of  such  hospitals 


Tl 

fatal  disease  was 

amp  fever  •  th 

on  was  diarrhea  or 

inflammation  of  th 

number  constantl 

.  of  the  strength  of 

mortality  from  disease  alone 

was  forty-eigl 

strength  in  tho  first  year  of  the  war,  and  sixty- 
five  and  two-tenths  in  the  second.     Tho  regis- 
tries of  the  wounded  era  not  completed. 
Meanwhile  the  accumulation  of  information 

sickness  is  enormous,  and  tho  collection  of  the 
results  of  microscopical  observation  is  of  tho 
utmost  interest  and  importnnco.  The  peculiar 
enthusiasm  of  tho  profession  has  amassed  the 
most  ample  material  for  a  medical  history  of 
tho  war;  and  it  is  not  possible  to  contemplate 
without  pride  and  gratitude  the  conduct  of  this 
indefatigable  and  accomplished  branch  of  tho 


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SYCOPHANCY. 

papers  which  '. 


There  are  cert. 

cry  had  habit  of  a 
Kit.  altogether  approve  their  projects  of  ret 
;anization  ore  ill-conditioned  malcontents  a 
isionaries  who  are  hostile  to  a  speedy  and  t 


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,ow  let  us  see  what  the  cost  of  the  bare 
iiifacture  of  these  10,000  copies  would  be 
In*  country  at  pres^  orices.  Alier  a  care- 
calculation  we  finu  that  the  paper,  compo- 
.  press-work,  and  folding  of 


the  Magazine  wo 

ie.-,    [4  ,.,/,/.-,  a  copy,   instead    of  thru- 
its  aile.-ed  marker  (■aloe  in  ICudaud. 


This  i 


;  no  allowance  for  literary  and  artisiie  hit 
I  the  cost  of  the  engravings. 
Upon  these  10,000  copies  the  importers  p 
utyof  only  thiee-fourths  of  a  farthing,  wh 
■■  :5  separate  taxes  imposed  bylaw  upon  t 
icr.  -au  manufacturer  amount  to  at  least  fo 
'»s.  In  other  words,  we '- protect"  the  Br 
manufacture,-  of  hooks  by  imposing  ,,p 
1  by  way  of  duty  only  one-fifth  as  much 
Mid  by 'the  American  manufacturer  in  dir. 
es  upoa  raw  material  and  labor  ah   . 


permanent  settlement  of  the  question  as  any 
of  the  papers  to  which  we  refer  can  be,  is  per- 
suaded, upon  n  thoughtful  review  of  all  the  evi- 
dence, that  still  further  consideration  and  de- 

qirishes  its  hold  upon  the  lately  insurgent  States, 
he  is  denounced  as  an  enemy  of  the  President's 
policy,  and  as  insisting  upon  foolish  crotchets, 
theories,  and  "isms." 

Now,  it  is  a  very  pertinent  inquiry  why  the 
purely  speculative  views  which  the  President 


>n  may  not  equally  be  derided  . 


)  speculate.  It  may  also  bo  permitted  the 
ime  mind  to  doubt  whether  the  speculations 
f  the  President,  or  of  any  paper  which  echoes 


1  Ho- 


ve. >  ■ 


ei.  are,  for  thai,  reason,  binding  upon 

ican  people.  There  is  no  folly  more  absurd 
than  this  kind  of  effort  to  "whip  in"  the  intel- 
ligent mind  of  the  country. 

For  ourselves,  we  have  full  faith  in  the  pur- 
poses of  the  President,  whose  election  we  warm- 
ly supported.  With  some  of  his-  theories  we 
on,   upon    the  whole 


sincerely  approve  the  s 

mposed  upon   the  late 
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HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  20, 


INSIDE 

A  CHRONICLE  OF  SECESSION. 


Not  n  Preface  merely  for  preface'  sake,  but 
as  few  words  as  possible  by  way  of  explanation. 

Tliis  book  wns  written  in  one  of  the  centres 
of  Secession.  Begun  at  the  outset,  it  grew  with 
tbo  growth  thereof,  and  closed  with  its  ending. 

6V  out  of  the  pale  of  Secession  dining  its  contin- 
uance, had  full  time  and  opportunity  for  ns  care- 
ful n  study  of  the  period  as  lie  could  wish.  If 
he  line  cast  the  result  in  the.  form  of  a  fiction  his 
work  is  none  the  less  ns  essentially  true  as  the 
dryest  history  ever  penned;  and  will  bo  acknowl- 
edged to  be  by  all  who,  by  reason  of  occupying 
a  like  position  during  the  war,  are  competent 
to  speak.  And  it  is  as  true,  in  most  respects, 
for  one  region  in  the  South  as  for  any  other,  the 
Secessionist  as  a  clnss  in  all  its  varieties,  and  the 


■ill  .go  throughout  the  South, 


The  form  of  a 

novel 

WHS  ad 

opted  chiefly  to 

make  it 

impo-.-dbie  for 

any  on 

to  identify  the 

place  .jn 

vhich  th 

is  laid 

and  the  chnrnc- 

.    And  thnt 

The  pur 

od  erabr 

cedii 

the  sto 

■y  is  one  which 

will  be,  in  .ill  its  aspects,  a  phenomenon  inter- 
esting to  men  for  generations  to  come.    Other 

remarkable  period ;  this  book  aims  only  to  pho- 
tograph the  social  aspect  thereof  from  a  point 
entirely  within  ;  and  it  is  a  ■period  altogether 
too  sublime,  both  in  its  evil  and  its  good,  for 
any  thing  so  short-lived  and  insect-like  as  mere 
personalities,  which,  as  they  buzz  and  6ting  but 
during  their  brief  moment,  should  perish  also 
and  be  forgotten  within  the  same.  Yes,  if  there 
be  one  drop  of  gall,  a  least  splinter  of  wormwood 
in  these  pages,  the  writer  is  ignorant  of  it. 

Born  at,  and  having  spent  almost  his  entire 
life  in,  the  South,  the  writer's  first  affections  are, 
by  that  nature  which  attaches  every  thing  that 
breathes  to  its  own  home,  with  and  for  the  South. 


very. 


shoe 


larger  nnd  stronger  for  the 

ation  of  which  the 

South  is 

but  a  part,  and  is 

powerless  to  refuse 

i,  both  of  head  ant 

heart,  to  the  truth 

that  the 

hole  is  greater  tha 

i  part  of  the  whole. 

docs  he  yield  revc 

ence  and  affection, 

still  bevond  this,  to  Truth. 

Sight,  Conscience, 

God.     A 

love  herein  withoi 

.  the  least  conflict 

in  its  th 

ce  degrees  of  positiv 

e,  comparative,  su- 

pcilativc 

Toward  no  one 

during  Secession, 

has  bis 

atred  been  even  st 

Ted.     For  many  a 

ever  they  wore,  a  Union  man— claims  no  mer- 
it for  this,  since  it  required  no  exertion  on  his 
part,  he  being  such  by  "a  sort  of  nature,  as  a  ce- 
dar-tree is  not  a  cypress,  and  as  an  oak-tree  is 
an  oak.  Conscious  of  many  a  shortcoming  in 
other  respects,  ho  has  nothing  to  reproach  him- 
self with  in  this,  unless  it  be  for  excess  of  love 
to  his  country,  which,  perhaps,  the  timts  may 
excuse. 

The  very  manuscript  from  which  these  lines 
are  printed  could  tell  a  tale  of  its  own,  apart 
from  that  which  it  narrates,  in  confirmation  of 
this.  "While  writing  it  the  author  was  perfectly 
aware  that  his  life  would  have  paid  the  forfeit 
had  a  written  page  been  discovered.  On  more 
than  one  Sunday  the  wife  of  the  writer  has  borne 
the  manuscript  to  church  concealed  about  her 
person,  in  terror  of  leaving  it,  like  powder  ex- 
posed to  chance  sparks,  at  home.  However,  as 
our  story  shows,  that  was  but  a  small  specimen 
of  the  totally  new  set  of  duties,  unprovided  for 
in  the  marriage  ccremouy,  which  wives  had  to 
perform  for  Union  husbands  during  Secession. 
On  two  occasions  the  writer  was  obliged  to  bury 
his  manuscript  in  the  ground,  thereby  damaging 
it  seriously.  To  that  the  printer  whose  misfor- 
tune it  is  to  set  up  these  pages  will  tearfully  dc- 

They  say  that  even  amidst  rock  and  glacier, 
avalanche  and  tempest  of  Alpine  regions,  there 
spring  flowers  not  unworthy  the  gathering.  "Who 
nows  but  it  may  be  so  with  this  volume,  which 
.as  slowly  and  painfully  matured  its  leaves  tin- 
ier circumstances—  But  suppose  we  permit  the 
book  to  speak  for  itself. 


Lor',  Miss  'Ilia,  you  better  not  sing  dat— 
not  de  Yankee  flag— bonncr  blue  flag—" 

"You  shut  up,  Amouse;  hush,  'Ria." 

"Hush  your  own  mouth,  Bub.  Hurrah  for 
Lincoln  mi'  Jeff  Davis!" 

"  Oh,  'Ria,  I'll  tell  Pa  what  you  said !  Hol- 
lered for  old  Lincoln  ;  didn't  she,  Amouse?  If 
they  don't  hang  you!  Yonder's  Pupper  now, 
just  coming  in  the  gate.  Oh,  Pupper,  here's 
'Ria  been  hollering  all  the  morning  for  Abe 
Lincoln  !     Ain't  she  a  old  Yankee?" 

"Am  a  Yankee!  Am  a  'Bolitionist!  Hate 
old  Davis  I     Hurrah  for  Lincoln  an'  the  Souf!" 

"Hush  your  racket,  children  ;  hush  that,  Ma- 
ria !"  and  "their  father  fastened  the  gate  slowly 
and  carefully  behind  him. 

"They  know  just  about  as  much  about  it  all 
as  most  grown  people,"  Baid,  but  strictly  to  him- 
self, the  father  of  'Ria  and  Bub  and  the  master 
of  Amos,  about  whose  profession,  as  he  walks  to- 
ward the  house,  there  is  no  necessity  of  inform- 
ing you.  That  ho  is  a  doctor  you  can  see  by 
the  medical  saddle-bags  which  he  carries  hung 
over  his  left  arm.  A  good,  careful,  conscien- 
tious doctor  too,  especially  to  nurse  a  patient 
through  a  long  iilness.  That  you  can  read  in 
his  mild,  florid  face,  in  the  loiter  of  his  very  gait. 

But,  if  you  are  a  woman,  and  possess 


;  this  Dr. 


As  you  observe,  following  him  with 

,  toward   the   house,  lie  tin-  very  light 
eyes — not  the  ma 


excited  - 


■  guiltie-l  as  h 


i  deepest  pity  f..r  il 
ing  the  most  infatuated:  glad 
man  justice  perhaps,  Divine  justice  certainly,  is 
to  be  meted  out;  glad,  alsb,  that,  save  in  these 
bumble-  pages,  to  him  is  committed  neither  its 
determining  nor  the  execution. 

He  claims  no  merit  whatever  above  others, 
far  better,  mayhap,  in  every  other  respect  than 
bimsclf,  for,  being  from  his  earliest  memory,  in 
every  thought,  emotion,  word,  deed,  through  all 
OMoeUtions,  oppositions,  circumstances," wnat- 


thigh.  When  Nature  has  given  a  decided  char- 
out  some  decided  flag  of  it  on  the  outer  wall: 
eyes  of  some  definite  color;  hair  red,  black,  or 
very  brown. 

"But,  Pupper,"  says  Bub,  calling  after  his 
father,  "oh,  Pupper,  please  make  'ilia  stop  hol- 
lering out  here  for  Lincoln ;  she's  all  the  time 
doing  it.  Joe  Staples  threw  a  rock  at  us  yes- 
terday ;  hit  our  Amouse  plum  on  the  head." 

"You  hear,  Maria.  Mind  what  Bub  says. 
Don't  you  let  me  hear  of  your  hollering  any 
more,"  says  the  father,  turning  half  around. 
'•Don't  vo'u  know  ladies  never  holler?" 

"Oh,  Pa,  but  yes  they  do!"  exclaims  his 
daughter.  "Don't  you  know  how  Sally  Smith- 
era  waved  her  towel  an'  hollered  that  day  the 
soldiers  marched? — all  the  ladies  on  the  front 
porches — don't  you  'member?" 


"Yes  I  must,  Pupper;  have  to  holler.    Amouse 
here,  ho  hollers;   Joe  Staples  hollers;  Bub  is 

always  hollering  ;  every  body  in  Sbmerville  is 
nlwavs  hollering  all  the  time." 

"Well,  Maria,  if  you  must  have  something 


Dr.  Warner  placed  lle,m  ( 

sheit  made  for  the  express  purpose,  in  tue  nan 

beside  the  hat-stand,  high  out  of  reach  of  the 

children.     Next  he  proceeded,  with  what  might 

vied  a  cautious  step  for  a  man  in  his  own 

e,  to  the  door  leading  into  the  breakfnst- 


"Ah,  Sarah,  breakfast  over,  I  see,"  he  said, 
first  glancing  in  through  the  partly-opened  door, 
nnd  then  venturing  more  boldly  in,  when  he  sees 
thnt  no  one  is  therein  except  the  negro  woman 
standing  over  the  wrecks  of  the  meal,  washing 
u]..  the  cups  and  saucers. 

Prey  fnirlv  in  the  trap,  the  trigger  springs  : 

"Over,  Dr.  Warner?  Of  course  it  was,  one 
good  hour  ago,  nnd  you  knew  it  when  you  asked." 

It  was  his  wife  wiio  said  it,  following  her  voice 
into  the  breakfast-room  ns  she  spoke.  She  had 
been  saying  it  over  to  herself  ever  since  she  heard 
the  front  gate  click,  and  short  and  sharp  enough 

"Gracious  goodness!  can't  your  patients  fix 
it  so  we  can  have  some  little  order  about  our 
meals?  But  it  is  all  your  fault,  Dr.  Warner. 
Why  can't  you  just  give  them  their  physic,  what- 
ever it  is,  be  done  with  it,  and  come  home? 
Here's  Sarah— why  can't  you  get  that  coffee- 
pot, Sarah? — here's  Sarah  — and  you  haven't 
washed  them  plates  up  yet?— here's  Sarah  kept 
from  her  morning's  work,  and  kept  from  and 
kept  from  t,  and  she  a  good  six  dozen  washing 
to  have  done  and  hung  out  before  the  cows  come 
up  to-night.  If  I  was  yon,  Dr.  Warner,  I'd  give 
up  my  practice ;  goodness  knows  you  make  lit- 
tle enough  at  it;  yon  would  make  plenty  if  you 
would  only  collect.  But  precious  little  you'd 
make  at  any  tiling  else!" 

"It  doesn't  matter,  Helen,"  ventured  her 
spouse,  whose  somewhat  bald  head  had  fallen 
into  an  indescribable  droop,  as  of  one  under  a 
shower-bath,  the  in.-tant  his  wife"  began.  So 
saying,  he  drew  his  chair  to  tbo  table  while  the 
servant  was  placing  his  breakfast  thereon.  "I 
have  been  up  near  all  night,"  he  continued,  ns 
he  stirred  his  coffee;  "haven't  any  warm  hom- 
iny ?    Never  mind,  I  have  no  appetite,  any  thing 


you  Sarah;1'  and  Mrs.  Warner  takes  a  s 
the  other  end  of  the  table.  "I  would  i 
know  when  she  settled  last— such  a  lady  t 
always  call  her.     And  why  haven't  yon  told  r 


what  is  the  matter 
light  1 


They 
given  you  at  least  a  cup  of  coffee." 
they  did,  Alice  saw  to  that,"  says 
Dr.  Warner,  who  never  fails  to  speak  the  best 
he  can  of  any  and  every  one. 

"  Coffee!  Yes,  Confederate  coffee,  I'll  bet," 
interposes  his  wife,  threading  her  needle. 

"Yes,  but  you  couldn't  have  told  tho  differ- 
ence—at  least,  hardly;"  for  the  Doctor  is  very 
truthful  too. 

"Stuff!  Never  tell  me,"  breaks  in  his  wife. 
"There's  old  Mrs.  Juggins,  Bhc  uses  barley. 
You  know  you  couldn't  stand  that,  even  the 
smell.  Came  to  find  out  we  had  gone  nnd 
ground  it,  wl  " 


Tried  r 


find  ou 

she  used  it  so- 
g,  but  it  wouldn't  do.  There's 
sweet-potatoes,  too,  cut  thin  and  browned.  Mrs. 
Bowles's  notion ;  you  know  what  a  sickly  sort  of 
sweet  it  was.  Coffee!  Rye,  too,  that  is  Mr. 
Ncely's  plan.  Like  a  Yankee!  Then  there's 
Mr.  Ferguson,  okra  seed's  his  Scotch  scheme,  as 
if  one  could  get  okra  seed  enough  to  last  a  week. 
Never  tell  me  !  A  tbfpg  is  either  coffee  or  it  ain't 
coffee.  You  are  so  polite  you  pretend  you  can't 
tell  the  uifieivnee — don't  catch  me." 

"One  dollar  a  pound,"  ventures  her  husband. 

"What,  gone  up  to  a  dollar?     Oh,  if  I  only 
was  a  man!    If  I  didn't  hang  them.     First 


soon.'  Yes,  and  when  they  did  have  some  next 
time  it  was  eighty  cents.  And  all  the  time  they 
were  pretending  to  be  out  they  had  sacks  and 
"  '*  iled  away  down  in  the  cellar,  or  hid- 
1  things  way  up  in  the  loft. 


den  under  eat. 

Calicoes 

cents;  domestics,  six  bits;  fifty  cents  for  a  tir 
cup;  five  pounds  of  sugar  for  a  dollar  ;  molasses, 
dollar  and  a  quarter;  shoes,  eight  dollars;  flour, 

'-'■■    '.'oil:.  m.i] 

what  we  are  coming 


oe-,eigu 

1  be.  -  I'd  like  to  know 
Mr.  Barker  was  right 


off  to  fight  the  battles  of  their  country,  bleeding 
and  dying  somewhere,  and  they  at  home  making 
money  out  of  the  poor  wives,  and  widows,  and 
orphans.  Barker  was  right.  Th  ir  stores  ought 
to  bo  just  taken,  the  goods  so'  I  for  them  at 
tho  old  prices.  Hang  them !"  i  .aeulated  Mrs. 
Warner,  her  wrath  rising,  as  it  ^vcr  did,  at  tho 
sound  of  her  own  voice.  "  Yes,  as  brother  Bark- 
er says,  'I  could  string  them  up  with  my  own 


showcr-l.alh  droop  about 
i  pause-  of  .rurpri-e  in    the 
sits  with  suspended  nee- 
.'!].',  l.iu king  at  her  hu-baud.      And  while  she  is 

tch  her  photograph— if  we  can. 
When  Dr.  Warner  first  settled  in  Somerville, 
avs  ago  this    18(12,  Mrs.  Winner  was.  a  tall, 
-pure,  -brill  spinster.     Other  than  being  an  ex- 

rrr'Ini'jh    iiidushioii-  and  iicu   la  ;-u -nk.Ocpci    MV- 
Ilelen   Morris   had  only  fourteen   recommenda- 
tions to  a  marrying  man ;   and  those  fourteen 
had  leg-  and  could  wield  hoc-,  scrubbing-brusho-. 
and    ua-hmr-hoards.       Nomi'how    or   other   the 
I). .nor  married  her.     Was  it  that  ihe  poor  and 
ltless  young  Doctor  wanted  a  home  ?     Mrs. 
cr  very  often  afterward  her.-...  If  suggested 
solution  of  the  case.     It  was   a  special 
_  m  in  her  arsenal  in  the  worriment  of  her 
husband,  which  worriment  was  a  large  part  of 
housekeeping.     Nor  did   she  conceal   her 
pauuu)    impression   to    that    i.lVcci    from    chance 
company  onher ;    for  it  was  a  p'culiarily  ot  airs. 
Winner  to  express  herself  upon  ma i  in  s,  pka-ani 
and  unpleasant,  relating  to  herself  openly,  fully, 
and  upon  every  occasion.     Or  it  may  be — most 
iv ere  of  that  opinion —  liiat  ir  wa-  not  the  Doctor 
who  married  the  hulv,  but  il.o  bidvv.h..  married 
Good,  < 


Miss  ' 


Not  that  the  Doctor  did  not  have  warning 

ir  nnd  sufficient.  When  lie  applied  that  day 
i  the  dirty  county  court  office  to  Bob  Withers, 

couniy  i.  leik,  for  the  marriage  license,  thnt  gen- 
tleman did  his  best.  Years  after  Bob  prided 
himself  upon  that. 

To  .Mi.--  II. .1. -v.  Morris-  -  not  ihe  widow  Mor- 
-to  Miss  Helen  Morris,  did  you  say,  Doc?" 

lie  a-ked,  with  an  empha-is  iml  complimentary.. 
Even  when  Bob  Wuhoi-  bionght  him-df  fair- 
o  the  task  of  filling  up  the  blanks  of  a  license 

spoiled  one  form,  and  tin  n  another,  with  hi  un- 
do-, hi-  oi uid  e\  idcinly  b-iug  on  something  else. 
vhen  he  had  dipped  his  pen  in  the  ink  t 


.  stick  it  behind 


lv,  unlock  the  drawer  i 


pi-tol  and  lav  it  thereupon, 

'     A  frank 
and  wholesome  face,  Bob's. 

solemnly  said,  with  hand  resting 
ipon,  "I  like  you  as   much,  by 

George!   as  any  man  I  know.     I  haven't  forgot 

that  typhoid  fever  lime.  But  look  here,  Doc. 
.1  la  :■■■.'.■  id.  .:  Mi--  Il'dvn  Moni-—  gracious  Heav- 
!  n-'"  wjk:  <1,ti-i..h.];ii.le  iiriiatinn,  "whoin  Som- 
eiviito  don't  know  her?— and  I  just  tell  you  as 

the  ihing-  but  before  you  marry  them  black 
eves  ami  that  awful  tongue-  you  see  I  boarded 
wiih  her  once-  you'd  better  take  this  Derringer 
nnd  kill  yourself,  by  George !  and  be  done  with 

But  the  Doctor  married  her.  "■"  1 

Early  in  life  Miss  Helen  may  have  been  a 

brunette  and  all  tho  rest.     But  Mrs.  Warner 

sallow— only  sallow.     The  lips  i 


her  eyeB? 

i  Reverend  Edward  Arthur 

1  boat. 


had  made  a  pretty  long  trip  on 

and  on  his  introduction  to  Mrs.  Warner,  ' 

bo  first  took  charge  of  the  Somerville  church, 
he  bad  been  struck  with  a  foolish  fancy  that 
her  blackly-defined  eyebrows  resembled  the  lock. 
gal.  -  on  the  canal  when  opening  to  let  down 
the  water.  The  fact  is,  the  lady's  eyes  and  eye- 
brows did  have   an   oblique   direction  upward 

being  wide,  awake,  becoming  : 

oblique  as  she  grew  excited.     Free  as  the  air  in 

the  expression  of  herself;  tough  and  elastic  as 

guita  i  erelia  ;  electric  from  head  to  foot,  the 
■  lee-.n.'i'y  quivering-,  as  its  nature  is  on  every 
go  r<  ling  point  of  the  body  charged,  nt  the  tips 
.  :  [.,■■,■  angci-,  the  comers,  of  her  eyes  and  mouth, 
in  focus  on  the  end  of  her  tongue. 

But  let  us  he  chai  liable.  IVrhnps  if  you,  or 
.-.  o  i:  l  my.-th.  had  dipped  -nnll'as  long" and  r 
incessantly  t      ' 


■  W(,n!d  I 


'Ilia,  Amos,  Sarah,  and -thereat  had  to  endnre 

perpetual    ; 


her  eyes  and  tongue  in  re- 
t  and  without  her  household, 
;  Doctor  had  by  far  the  larger  .share  thereof. 


ly  Dr.  Warner !  He  has  lenrncd  only  to  droop 
his  head  and  take  it.  When  it  becomes  too 
bad,  and  if  Mrs.  Warner  pours  her  vial  upon 
him  when  company — as  she  often  does — is  pres- 
ent, the  Doctor,  at  the  earliest  possible  moment, 
carries  his  drooped  head  out  of  the  parlor  and 


t  and  meaning  of  things ; 


f  there  is  as  solid 


the  life  of  John  Howard. 


vs  a  needed  spur — 
l  his  side,  this  wife 
iing  to  this  husband.  He  married  her, 
with  blind  promptings— who  knows?— 


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planets,  her  own  sacred  bala 
Pique,  : 


When 

your  wile,  yon  will  find  that  she  mates 
'0  oil  the  plan  of  a  perfect  compi n-alimi  ; 
i,  she  makes  up  for  the  excess  of  any  de- 
one  of  you  by  an  excess  of  the  oppugn 


Muyourl 


than  Nature  thin  made  the  match  it  you,  a  i;i!l 
man,  are  wedded  to  any  other  than  an  under- 
sized woman.  Woe  to  you,  Madam,  if  you,  a 
blonde,  are  united  to  a  'fair-haired  mini':  .So 
of  that  inner  nature  of  winch  the  outer  appear- 
ance is  but  the  symbol.  Alas  for  you,  Sir,  if 
you,  a  man  of  desponding  temperament,  are 
wedded  to  a  wife  of  the  same  dismal  hue  of  feel- 
ing! Though*!  believe,  even  in  that  case,  Na- 
ture strives  to  make  the  best  of  a  union  in  which 
she  had  no  hand.  I  will  not  say  how  it  will  be 
if  you  are  a  man  ;  but  if  you  are  a  woman  I  am 
certain  of  this:  however  despondent  you  may 

i's  brow,  or  the  least  growl 
he   or  her 

side  of  the  tilting  bark,  and  become  as  cheerful 
ns  possible.    And  the  instant  you  give  way  to 

gloom  notice  how  awkwardly,  yet  well  mean- 
ingle,  he,  poor  Ml.iw  !  attempt's  ai  l^a^l  i<">  uini 
the   tihine;   re^el  bv  |-.ni  ,'ing  OH   ;il   lea-a   :ui  a'-|i"et 

of  cheerfulness.    Woe,  then,  had  it  been  to  Mrs. 

\\  aniei     if   -die    :.:;:.i    '■    e-  n    umred    lo   some    eh'.;  ,;■■ 

eyed,  black-haired,  black-bearded  husband  !  No- 
tice the  union  of  two  sable  clouds  in  mid-air,  if 
you  would  understand  the  result.  So  that  when 
Mrs.  Warner  paused  from  her  sewing  and  said, 

' '  As  much  as  to  say,  if  brother  Barker  oughtn't 
to  say  it  because  he  is  a  preacher,  I  oughtn't  to 
say  it  because  I'ri 
helped  himself  i 
manner  to  the  butter. 

"I  do  believe,"  said  Mrs.  Warner—*'  Sarah, 
step  out  and  tell  those  children  w  hush  that  noise 
—I  do  believe,"  she  continued  in  low,  sepulchral 
tones,   "that  you,  Dr.  Warner. 


Language  can  not  set  forth  tTi  -■■■■ 
epithet  implied  in  tho  charge,  the  < 
opening  wider  and  wit' 


i  didn't  ring  1 


al  gates 


:  know  now!"  said  Mrs.  Warner 
ith  a  new  light  breaking  all  over 
ner  tace.     "ifcs,  and  why  you  couldn't  leavo 
Mrs.  Bowles.     Worse,  is  she  '     Ha !     Yes,  I  see 

U    :'![.''        <  'anal    ;.';i!r-  <>]•<:!)    rlieil"    .vid<'si. 

Dr.  Warner  glanced    -   -        ■ 


wife  with 

amazingly  sharp  woman 

"Bells?"  lie  said,  how 
I  should  think,  Helen,  _ 
enough  of  bells  night  before 


Uha       ■!, 
hilllMf. 
"BeIN? 
had 


There  i 


Every  bell 
big  Methodist  bell ;  I  lay 
counted  no  less  than  ten  fresh  hands  in  turn 
at  bell-rope  before  day.  The  first  hand  be- 
as,  if  he  would  break  the  bell  to  pieces,  pulled 
it  was  broken  down  ;  then  you  could  notice 
cope  taken  by  another  till  he  gave  up  ex- 
ted  :  then  by  another,  through  the  whole  ten. 


1 ' Dr.  Warner! "  said  Mrs.  W.  solemnly,  needle, 

is,  breath  suspended. 

"And  you  know  I  said  at  the  time — or  was  it 

iv  yourself  made  the  remark—" 

"  Dr.  Warner  !— Sarah,  don't  come  here,  stay 


nave  said  it.     And  il 

>  last  night  says  our  soldiers  have  b-  en 
lipped  there  in  Tennessee,  it's  a  lie!  Didn't 
■   papers   ni^lii   he  lore   last  tell  how 


"What  is  the  matter  with  Mrs.  Bowleg  Dr. 

Warner?''  asked  his  wit'-,  v.  iih  Middei 

"Well,''  replied  her  helpmate,  slowly,  "the 
faculty  have  different  names  for  it.     There  are 


lias  heard  inn  had  news 
Umledee  IJowl-  ■  ■■  I.  , 
)ld  me  so  when  \ou  lir-t 
heard?     Something  I  a  I, 


"Well,  yes. 
Bowles  permits 
too  much,  on  the  cv 

"Dr.  Warner,"  : 
tones  though  lower 


t  you  ki 

mindtn 


know,  my  dear,  Mrs. 
i  too  much,  really 
of  the  day—" 
his  wife,  in  alarming 
i  before,  '.'will  you  tell 

tniglit?" 


"What  is  it?" 

"  Fort  Donelson  has  fallen,  my  dear.  General 
Johnson  has  retreated  into  Alabama.  Nashville 
has  capitulated.  A  good  many  more  items  to 
the  same  effect.  At  least  so  the  paper  says.  I 
dare  say  part  of  the  news  may  be  exaggerated, 
|. immature  at  least." 

"It's  a  lie— it's  a  base,  base,  base  lie !  I'll  bet 
a  thousand  dollars  the  man  that  prints  that  pa- 
per is  a  Yankee.    He  ought  to  be  hung !" 

Perhaps  it  was  owing  to  her  cheeks  ha-.ni-.  he- 


while  her  husband  only  arched 
tingly,  and  proceeded  to  eat  his  break- 
'      is,  appetite,  r ' 

■rea'h   with 
wife  at  the 


But,  oh  the  exquisite  satisfaction  of  Dr.  War- 
ner in  imparting  tho  news,  unspeakable  satis- 
faction at  tho  very  core  of  his  heart,  though 
all  the  rest  of  his  anatomy  might  disavow  it! 

How  you  up  there  at  the  North  rang  your 
bells  and  blazed  in  all  manner  of  illumination, 
and  invoked  the  entire  hive  to  help  utter  your 
t,  Heaven  and  History  well  know. 
is  ns  nothing  compared  with 
v  thereat  which  flashed  unex- 
tll  loyal  hearts  at  the  South. 
ir  it  tli 


Your  joy  ? 


History  shall  know 


Heaven  only 
it  forever. 

"And  if  it  is  true,  though  I  don't  believe  a 
word  of  it,  there's  some  base  treachery  in  it,  or 
tho  officers  were  all  drunk,  or  they  were  all  a 
pack  of  cowards !  To  give  up  to  Yankees !  I 
do  wi-h  the  Yankees  '  ;d  managed 


says  Mrs.  Warner. 

"Why,  my  dear,  it  would 

tore  to  keep  you  in   rope,"  e 
playfully  but  injudiciously. 


And  yon  are  i 
sponds  his  wife,  t 
zigzag  in  every  d 


rry  a  single 
ig  the  lightning  o 
ion  that  offers, 
t  tell  you,  Dr.  Warner, 


And  when  you  did  wake,  von  s; 
expecting  a  virion 

cry  hi-ll  in  tuwn  v.  i-  .  •■::iii  ;  ns  ha 

Dr.  Warner,  you  nro  the  worry  of  my  ]ifo  !    And 

"But  you  know,  Helen,  I  heard  tho  news 
several  hours  ago.  Besides,  I've  just  drunk  two 
cups  of  your  excellent  coffee.     Then,  my  mind 


with   Mrs.   I'.:.ul,^s 
■  dear,"  said   tho   IWtor, 
'I'm  getting  i 


09.     Such  r 

]<•  licet  |:uly,  ton,  in  every 
is  given  hei-elf  up  to  mi  nu 
long.     Hullcdge  Bowh-s  i. 
the  news  night  before  hist  ntmo.M  deranged  I 

The  reaction  was  almost  too  much  for  her. 
tell  you  what,  my  dear,"  continued  the  Doct 

with   indolent   hvimcri-v.    "I'm    chid    I   havi 


"   No.   I),'.  W.  :,,,.    yon    i-t.ll-1    hhe.l 

Hon,.'-,  at  Ir-*.;,  in  wliii  li  I  can  only  | 
e.m'i  help  lu.iii-  Ail  ,-.  You  never 
lege  Bowles  from  her   lips  — never  opens 


:  hint,  hardly.     But,  if  you  mean  to 
ith  more  than  I  do — " 

use  of  worrying  yourself? 


field,  doing,  I  dare  s 


t  every  day  collecting  f 


i  ladies  of  Somervillc  only  did  one-half  < 


ulses,  dosing  chtl 


'In  your  acquaintance  among  the  ladiesihosc 
tt  talk  most,  fuss  most,  do  inc-t  of  the  work 
they,  ch?     Why  you  told  me  yourself,  Hcl- 

"  Pshaw!  Dr.- Warner,  you  know  perfectly 
II  what  I  mean.  You  arc  not  suro  enotich 
i  South  is  going  ( 


Iftoplo  just  asm 
I  believe — than  you  do  among  goot 
i-t-.  Nubodv  can  get  any  thine  « 
Look  at  Dr.  Ginnis." 

"  Which  do  you  think  the  best  d 
two?  No,  my  dear,  I'm  a  phvsici 
pra.tiee,  I  believe  ;  all  mv  time  V  la 


itter  how  sick  they  are,  for  the 

ne.      If  he  likes,  and   ihev   like,    k 

-;;';;; -•••^>  «>?  .«;»y.  pi.ysicii.cn>, 

,'tof  mim'[  nm.  'Bosulcs.  you  I. .no 
ougn  for  us  both,  Holer..    Tnko 


'Vc<.  Hr.\V.ini 


YaiiL.TIUiu-luT!—  lulil I.;.ui|.|i.  ■  l . -- - ■  I .  I 

Imru  ill  lulu,  louil  us  l.c  lolks— tolil  >ue  [.■ 
I"lil  Li..,  lli.u  Dr.  1V.-I  Miiil  lie  rcnllv  I  . 
n  Alolil. 


But 


W.u-iu-r'.  eni|ilin<is  on  tho  word  is  beyo 
"An.l  iliis  cietit  III.  1'eol  iWi'>.  of  i 


,,i  -  .i  .in : 

who  l.n.l  | 


II...  (In  .nllul, 

i!-t  I;......-,-.": 


But,  Dr.  Warner' 


o  tiling—  Oil,  one  tliin;,  Dr.  Wnr- 
me  ten  iiountls  of  coffee  lit  Mr.  El- 
body  tins  any  confidence  left  bo-6 — 


:  leu's.     Muster  l-'..\  docs  i 
.'  tun  to  tlie  leeth  mid  rl.ois  o 
..  SI.  I;,  in. ml  i .  ii. u  .lefuicn:  . 


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politick!!)    to    be 

eeni    in    Si  menille  ;    chat    he   is   so  "flush  of 

money— not  p;tper-m<>n-'v,  l.nt   field.  Sir.  iouikI 

r  some  political 

[uMi;--ihill:u'    jnuc-i J'll    he    hanged,   Sir.   if    I 

itnii't    believe — why,    the    mini    hits    no   m-nipa- 

—  J'll  lit-  .  sir,  il   I  thin  i  tiniilv  lulnic  1 1 1 .- 1 1 

ons  his  enemies 

speaker    is  sunk  into  a  win-,  or,  :;ml  i-  nnivc-l 

h;nl  i'I'm  11  keen  tin'  ifimiik   imi'lc   in  S..mei  t  ilie. 

ut  number,  it  is. 

"There  is   ntv   trunk,  gentlemen.     T >i    IVol 

n  in  advance  of 

HUUiihe'l   when    ;t  enmtnun-r   ti-ilul   his   in.  in  >it 

St;i]  k-'s  Hotel  to  imc-ti^nt:    main  r-.       "  Di.n  t 

fnm  his  earliest 

'..!„■.  •  the  i;,l  pari  ot  it,  plen-c.     My  extra  coats, 

p.-cu-ii  ot  b.ing  Union  people  he  has  the 

Thank  you,  Sir ;  I  wish  to  have  nothing  lo 


.th  a  sjK-ries  of  frenzy  that  left  any  other  man 

Not  a  war-meeting  of  any  sort  but  he  was  the 
fii-l  m  ho  pit-tut  iiiul  ihu  hi-t  (.■  leave*,  flic  Innd- 
e-i  t<i  iipiiliiinl  fiiul  i In.-  largest  in  loinrihntc.  On 
our  -»r.i>i,.n,  at  least,  ho  pnUieh  ■  ■Hei*  fr.-nt  his 
own  pm-ki-t  iwriitj  dollars  in  g<.|<l,  in  aihiinm* 
to  tin.-  filiy-dultur  bounty,  to  every  nnn.  that  will 
i  mVt  in  the  new  company  hi-jnc  raised.  From 
the  earliest   hour  ot   the   da\   till  ihe   latest   mo- 

with  i  mi,  Ik-  lias  hut  one  topic—  Sr cession  ;;nd 
the  War.      He  can   not  cease   from  the   theme 


:  most  violent  of 


and   breeches   are   hanging 

behind   my  door.      I   will   take  off  tho 

Don't  loigct  those 


clothes  I  now  hat 


;s  on  the  tabic.     Make  i 
visit  n»d  ttie  suspicion 


It  was  n  little  singula  however, 
of  Dr.  Peel,  after  having  j.  itcly  csc 
door  of  his  chamber  the  comnlittc 
ferrcd    to — Bob  Withers,  Simmons 


eniiliul  goml-m  -  unit;,  "  i:il  '-i* 
furetiiigt.i'  and  thuinh  arched  I 
and  thumb,  he  fii>t  thought  it 


filter,    sparkling 
'Going  to  the  wa 


il'ds 

rifle  here  through  their  hearts  first  ones.  Do 
y..ii  think  money  conld  pay  mo  it.  stay  behind  ?'' 
Ami  liie.  D.utiu  Mould  pi  ru''l  to  ein.se  out  llto 
lest  of  the  feeling- "of  !-i-  soul  tm  the  snhj.  ct  in 
a  wnv  wiin.li  left  nnihinp  to  I.e  .1.  >n..il. 

And  yet  Dr.  lAcl's  burly  on  in  was  still  to  bo 
seen  in  evi-iy  store,  at  etOiy  street  turner,  lie- 
fore  every  bar.     It  was  singular.     "In     ....-unit 

emu -i-uileme    with    the    military    null -. 

Sir.  They  ;ne  anxious  to  place  me  «  here  I  <  :-.n 
ikt  mtM  I'm  the  glorious  oam-e."  Vet  months 
rolled  by;  the  Doctor  left  Somcmlk-  often 
eiit.nph.  hut  he  always  came  back  again  for  a 
fresh  start.     It  was  singular. 

But  hnmnin  has  lim-hetl  writing.  "Sec  if 
will  do,"  he  says  to  Dr.  Peel ;  and  lie  pro- 


-T1IK  slws  nr  1 


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January  20.  1-866.] 


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TYPES  OF  AMERICAN  BEAUIY.-[Fkom  Phoioo: 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  20, 


BREAKING  THE  SNOW. 


,T,J    l».«n 

And  tlie  leeward  Bides 

That  the  fox  tracks  tn 

■rniRht, 

Delicately  stepped  and 

stra.);ht. 

Miles  away  his  course 

sliow. 

Ho!     The  stalwart  men  are  out, 

,  111     lichl 

Of  the  snow  and  ol  th 

i  night, 

Doctor,  hope  of  paticn 

Farmer,  with  his  loud 

of  corn, 

V*.odtmin,  risinc  ere  t 

Throiifh   the  drifts  mi 

Ho!     The  breakers  ol 

t'onic  oloDg  with  call 

and  shout 

Bob-sled  upside  down 

lave  they, 

Drawn  by  many  a  pat 

■nt   pair, 

ry  place  "corn-ting"  wa*  performed 
ili  '['lif  genilentan  was  pa)T<-<\  < ■  ft" 
,d'lfestivi.  occasions.  They  sat  te- 
mpered in  public.     They  made  no 


of  Mr.  Lawrence  Lome  and  Mies  Abby  I 
ing  company." 


I.  '.h.  kept 
cm-  heard. 
I    nil!    ii "  1 1 > 


I  f- -r  r.i  v;<  If  u  itliont  a^l.infj:— ;il)  i< 
-olvcd' Uh,Tho«    IMt.      Tl„. 


Where  earth's 


ABBY  DILL'S  FORTUNE. 


]    kl|.-«  "),    when     till'    lll^.-'f-l     C 


torch,  sewing.     In  the  cozy  parlor  1 
,ther  snt  asleep  over  her  Bible. 


:  high-road,  whistling  as 
>n  a  flitting  flock  of  birds 
the  earth,  and  far  away  a 
[ing.      It  was  onlyafac- 


ory  hell;  I  know  t 


.,  thrilling  nit-  llirongb  wild  it- 
e  Post-office. 


,  whatever  it  was, 
ed,  with  a  laugh. 


"Ilnw  could  an  importnni  letter  m 
"Merev  on  us!   von  arc  going  1 

you,  Abby?"  asked  tin?  old  lady. 
"  Yes,  hy-and-by,  when  I  have  1 

my  walk,  grandma." 


so  silly  before;  I'm  actually  afraid  of 
1  know  of  no  one  who  would  write,  to 
ubject  of  importance.     I  can  think  of 

vent  which,  in  any  great  degree,  could 


•  on  the  table,  and  wo 


■v  bother  sho  liked  t 


,!■!  !      Tom  was  righi,"  sho  ■ 
that  ,-nrh  a  lett-r  should  e< 


■j|,,l  to  read  tli.-  li'M,  rahuid, 


hernia  child,  had  died,  leaving  I, 
sessed.  She  had  not  heard  of  h 
that  he  had  never  forgotten  her 


<  before  it  came,  1  flit 


!red  a  word  of  love  to  her,  to  -p-al;  the  first  one 
iat  night  ?  She  would  sec  in  it  the  most  transpar- 
it  1'urtune-himting,  and  reject  me  with  scorn.  I 
mst,  at  least,  wait  longer  now,  and  I  hated  myself 
ir  not  having  had  the  courage  to  speak  before. 
We  did  not  even  take  our  walk.      She  see ,1  to 


Hill  must  show  me  that  she-  like  I  me  before  I  could 

,:iv  tohertli.- worrl;  wliit.ii  would  have  l.een  uttered 

thatnighthad  the  letter  been  delayed  a  Utile  longer. 
The  postmaster's  stupid  Tom  came  nearer  to  a  tlog- 


lunliainl.  1  lound  niv-.lt  walking  with  her  in  hei 
garden;  all  aglow  that  evening  with  gay  autumi 
flowers.    She  picked  a  bouquet  for  me,  and  sighed  at 

■  Who  will  waieh  these  flowers  bloom  next  year, 

I  wonder  ?"  she  said  ;  "  I  have  been  so  fond  of  them.' 

"You  can  have  finer  flowers,"  I  Said,  "and  wil 

forget  these  and  ever}'  thing  else  here  very  soon.' 


d6por,  and,  as  I  watched  them  go,  I  knew  the  first 
step  of  what  might  be  an  eternal  parting  had  been 
taken.     My  heart  sank  within  me,  but  I  could  not 

mo  well  enough  to  make  it  worth  the  while. 

We  walked  up  and  down  the  broadest  path  of  the 
garden  quite  silently  after  the  bustle  was  past.  She 
had  wrilien  her  eiu  direction  on  a  card,  and  I  had 
put  it  in  my  pocket-book.  I  had  hoped  "  she  would 
have  a  pleasant  trip."      She  had  hoped  that  "I 


She  answered,  "  Good-night,  Mr.  Lome." 

Our  hands  just  touched,  though  I  was  filled  with 
a  wild  longing  to  clasp  her  to  my  breast  and  cry : 

"  Do  not  leave  me  so.  Tell  me  you  love  me, 
Abby." 

Aid  then  the  gate  had  opened  and  closed  after 

She  was  miles  away  wb-.-n  I  took  my  pin-  ■■  ai  tny 
desk  nest  day,  and  Heaven  only  knew  whether  I 
should  ever  see  her  again.     I  also  should  leave  the 

and  I  hud  but  one  hope  now.     To  find  some  path  ill 


,1a-!  Time  was  fleering,  air 
or  another  might  «in  her;  o 
won,  th'-    heart   might   he  t. 


fully.      I   performed  my  dfltu 


lour  new  class-rooms.      It  i 


and  fancy  Abby  Dill  a 


Opposite  the  school  arose  another  edifice,  hran- 
ew  and  exceedingly  pretentious — the   Winston 


On  the  way  borne  I  passed  Abby'f 
Some  one  lived  there  now  who  cared 
and  cabbages  than  for  flowers,  and  I 


hidden,  and  I 
little  cottage. 


I  what  was  called  The  Hill. 

ingle  still,  and  "kept  company"  with  i 


and  that  I  had  become  wealthy  enough  to  woo  her 
without  being  accused  of  mercenary  motives.  A 
monomaniac  for  the  time  being,  J  withdrew  all  that 
I  possessed  from  sundry  excellent  investments  and 
deposited  every  cent  in  the  Winston  Bank,  that 
gossips,  nimble-tongued  enough  in  Winston,  might 
carry  the  news  to  her.  On  Wednesday  I  intended 
to  call  upon  Abby  Dill  and  begin  my  wooing.  Alas ! 
the  most  positive  intentions  fail  to  be  carried  out  ac 
times.  On  Tuesday  evening,  entering  my  room  in 
the  dark,  I  .struck  my  eyebrow  against  the  door. 
Next  morning  I  bad  a  terrible  black  eye.  To  pre- 
myself  for  the  first  f 


■„,,,i,  i 


MO  iii  the  air  — Fate  brought  1 
were  lit  by  this  time,  and  ~r**\ 


I  Imped.      1  found  Win-ton  allered. 

ires  instead  of  one.      The  church 
•,  and  there  was  a  little  frame  cdi- 

he  Methodist  meeting- 


1  of  Offering  Abby  my  escort  home 
I  found  her  seat  empty.     She  had  gone  away  on  a 

visit  with  her  grandmother,  and  she  remained  away 
a  fortnight.     When  they  returned  there  came  with 

thereabouts,  who  devoted  himself  to  Miss  Abby  Dill 

talked  with  her,  sang  to  and  at  her  (for  how  often  I 
listened,  miserably  enough,  under  the  cottage  win- 
dows in  the  secrecy  of  the  evening  shadows)   and 


night  cast  my  last  bn 
One  day,  desperate: 
ramp  through  the  woi 


"This  is  a  world  of  trial-:-,  Mr.  Lome." 

I  acquiesced. 

"And  trouble  conies  when  we   least 


minis,  "  Is  -die  ntavii.'d  .-"  pa--,  d  tm   lips  unawares, 
ami  my  landlady  cried, 

"Who?  Marcy  me!  it's  nothing  about  mar- 
riage. I  wish  it  was.  There's  a  deal  of  trouble 
here  jn.-t  now,  and  vou  have  a  big  share  in  it. 
They  "said    /  mu*l   tell  you.      The  Winston  Bank  is 


■  t.  i t  1 1  eve  saw  me,  ana  i  can  only  uesire  to  lor- 

get  them  as'though  they  had  never  been. 

In  the  evening  I  went  out  into  the  village.  The 
-tore-  were  full  of  people  talking  over  the  eventt 

-nine  .urious  spectators  of  the  woes  of  others ;.  some 
unlv  -,v,npaiheiie(  some  crushed  into  a  sort  of  Stll-  , 
per  hv  their  Ins*,-;  and  others  eager  for  revengo, 
ntieriiiLi  threats  against  the  bankers,  and  cursing 
them  an. i  their  own  folly.  I  heard  my  own  name 
once  or  twice,  but  I  spoke  to  no  one.  At  last  I 
went  home  and  locked  myself  i,,  my  room,  but  not 
to  sleep.  Long  after  every  light  was  out  in  Win, 
stun  1  paced  the  floor. 

Midnight  bad  ua--.'d  and  the  moon  had  set,  when 
a-_'aiu--t  the  dark  t,ky  I  saw,  as  I  gazed  IVoin  my 
window,  a  reddish  sort  of  smoke  or  mist,  uliirh 
pu//led  and  attracted  me.  As  I  gazed  forked 
tongues  .,('  I, luc  Hume  bur-i  through  <  lv-  lurid  ma-'-', 
and  I  know  «ome  building  was  on  lire.  Tn  a  few 
moments    the   -kv   grew    crimson,  and   I   could   see 

.  flying  sparks   and   cinders   plainly,      Tho  fire 

,  and  Abby  Dill's  new  house  stood 

s  of  the  plnct 


was  on  The  r 

thee,  with  other  of  t 

At  the  thought  I  started  front  my  post  beside  tho 

window  and  da.-dicd  down  (lie  stairs  and  out  into  tho 

A  bell  was  ringing  1m  this  time,  every  door  open, 

and  people,  half  clad,  I  mining  in  i  he  d.ireei  mn  ,,i  ,]  ,. 
(Ire.  Two  hank  ilireeloi";  ■. ■  ■  ■  t- u j . i . ■ . t  dn  i-l'iugs  there, 
iin.l  some  mad  v.  rel.b,  ruined  by  tin-  failure  of  th.' 
Winston  Bank,  had  become  an  ineennlnry,  forge  t- 


They  had  the  old  grandmother  safelv  out  hv  th 

carried  her  bodily  through  flame  and  smoke;  ai 
now  she  stood  wringing  her  hand*  and  calling  i 
help  for  Abby. 


jAtTOAKY  20,  18fi6.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


■  p.rforin  my  h..-l,  ;  but  when  nil 


I  looker!  at  h?r  curiouslv 
'•Surely  oiio  house  will. 

bought  or  built." 


I     ,,     ,.l  ml  tin-  llll|lll|.  ■  .if  I 


ufavor.iMv  all.',  I,al  I 


can  j, 

-llv  in.lsi.-  oi"  lior  politi.  .1 , .. 

il.inntinns.     For 

avtian  ini'thud 

appca 

ami   tli..|,  i 

itli  .i  hip!    hip! 

in    .1'    Haiti,"  or 

Port-t 

i-I'rinco  lo  fin 

111,-  old  111 

lly  on  board  a 

a.      Speeches, 

lection  or  a 

'hiol  Magistrate 

,-d  President  ,, 

l'.ll)|i  ■!..!-    1 

a  limited  mili 

n  mm! 

V- ilcd,  ifhe 

ugnin,  Aliliy,  will  you 


•I  said,     "The.  the 


nvrr,  an, I   tlirv 
iltl  school.     Yoii 

t  my  desk,  with 


■  tile   life  \vo  began  ,„.',  rl,c 


ntcrvention  of  the  English 
lihittor  not  the  iinenlight- 

e  entire  negro  population 
irnment.  An  attempt,  or 
tion  on  the  port  of  his  Ad- 


uK%-Her  Britannic  Majesty's  /,'. 


uinih.ri.l  It.-,  I :,  ,|  i,l[.,r 

'all  in  the  overwhelmed  Inn 
fl'liarh- Ii,l  ii'licn  a  nee, 


latin   of  Hi,.  a.t-l',.i-  n-gr. 
null  lln;  amusements  of  H 

i-lilnV  i    II  was,  H,  B.M.' 


pillage,  liavieg  been  nmnlv  i,i„k,.„  „|,,.n  „„(  phinil,,,,! 

....     ...  ,i.  i.   ,,  .    ......  , 

ot^'^iSEStHiHSfl 

l.r..k.„  ,,,,  l,y  ,|„.  ,„„,,       ii,  , ,  v.,u,|„|i. ,„,„:,,,,. 

ii'.'"'!wn  ''i-i  vi".!,',"'"'''1 "'"' '""'" '"'""'"  ■''"""' "" 

tonisue'ii  took  i"  I  I  n  oV.Il  '\ 

..,  iZ'"ti'.."J"-'„,  ',,'n'",l!'i"'!"'.  ,:n'",'!i<'!'il,',!'','.",H,','' 


•';';:.::!;, 


o'doifn'r'o'f'nu'r 


:;::,::'; ::r: ,;;;,: 

liny  ,,,..,.  i.,.|,.,(1  it  began;  money  In 


|n... nil,,. nl  cili....|i     l.i    llirii  i.l.i-ilv  in  Mi„  ivlvlli,.,, 

ram.t  lilm-whothet  nippond  or  reel" 
Cape  Hayticn  used  to  ho  called  hy  the  old  plant- 


When  1  visited  it, 
tion  will  be  severely 


There  is  no  hope  nsiv  for  a  speedy  increase  of 

'■■' lain,, ■.,,,. ,;  l.v  universal  oilman  inn, 

i  ■  disbanding,,!  |||..  (in-simi  nimv.  and  the  .siiosti- 
ition  of  a  lew  regiments  „f  well-drilled  and  well, 
pupped  regulars  in  their  place.      It  is  to  be  hoped 


ir..N.I    |,1  i 


„    ,h 


HOME  AND  FOREIGN  GOSSIP. 


es  a  leiv  years  ago,  the  rallying  cry  . 
3  srplreme  article  tie  In  Cfm.'tlltt/ion!" 


contradictory  that  I  have  waited  i 
i  Irani  trnst-winthv  sources  how  tin 
inppressed  before  Icoinpl.teil  my  re, 
■  Hint  an  uprising  „f  the  blacks,  in  a. 


red  it,  and  determined 


ditions  were  to  be  proposed  to  them.  The  demand 
was  made  for  the  instant  delivery  of  General  Sal. 
nave  and  Monsieur  De  Lorme,  the  chiefs  of  th 
movement  under  Joseph.     Knowing  what  the) 


i  Boon,  hourly  lnngh  Is  belt. 


;,',:  *:s: ":;:,'' 


\V  \';'h['[   *  ■,,",',"-l.",'l""l 


W=: 


sor  somebody— I'm      ^'h,?'"!'^'''^,1'!!!,-'1  '  n"  "'L'^m 

l;,:,!i",r„"tfi".'i,S'K,,s 


rebel  batteries  and 

on  all  the  forts  in  po 

session 

General  Salnave, 

vliich  were  rapidly  < 

morning  of  the  9lh. 

11,..  III! 

iccurate.     Fort  Mat 

manding  one  porti. 

r  of  the  harbor)'  wa 

ed  three  hours,  ver 

as  he  lircd,  no  [lev 

his  devoted  friends 

»d  taken  refuge  out 

he  Yank 

;  before  GErraABD'a 


i-  Voik.     Competition  i, 


r:!:.:S;.{^r|;,.:j;:':>ai:' 


iNe»Yorklni)y_wh( 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  20,  1866. 


Jakpabt  20,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


!                  k 

i^^^\ 

1 

4'  *^^  ipp 

'/iSHH    \ 

HI  - 

! 

y1-  '•/.'' 

HON.  LAFAYETTE  S.  FOSTER,  ) 


VICE-PRESIDENT  FOSTER. 

The  Hon.  Lafayette  S.  Foster,  Vice-Prc 
dent  of  the  United  States,  was  bom  in  Franklin- 
part  of  the  old  town  of  Norwich —  Connecticut,  N 

vember  22,1806.     Ho  is  a  direct  descendant   . 


;  completed  I 
Goddard,  and 


University  Hie  degree  of  LL.D.,  being  at  that  time 
Mayor  of  Norwich. 

In  May,  1854,  Mr.  Foster  was  elected  United 
States  Senator  from  Connecticut  for  a  term  of  sis 

was  again  elected.  During  his 
Mr.  lu-n;i;  s,ervei.l  as  ;i  member) 
on  Revolutionary  Claims,  Private  Land  Claims, 
Public  Lands,  Territories,  Indian  Affairs,  the  Judi- 
ciary, and  Foreign  Helming,  ..nd  uas  al  one  limo 
Chairman  of  tho  Committee  on  Pensions.  He  was 
elected  President  pro  tarn,  of  tho  Senate  March  6, 
1865,  and  about  six  weeks  afterward,  upon  the  death 
of  President  Lincoln,  he  became  acting  Vicc-Prcs- 


HENRY  WINTER  DAVIS. 

The  death  of  tho  Hon.  Hen 


at  Kenyon  College,  Ohio,  and 

graduation  devoted 

study  of  law.     He  grew  rapidly  into  a  very  largo 


t  the  Maryhi 

n  politics  he  was  a  WliiK  until  (In 
i  \.-.\(\\ ,  when  he  joined  tl 


Maryla 
Mr.  Fillmore.     He 

elected  to  Congress,  i 
tteoofWav;i:iinl  Mr.i; 
to  the  next  Congress,  and  waa  t 
who  voted  for  Mr.  Pi^-'.wroj 


66  ho  gave  a  warm, 


iheC.inm 


;o  President  Lincoln,  ( 
in  his  policy  o 

his  political  views  and  conduct,  Mr.  DAVI3 
man  of  great  ability,  a  fluent  speaker,  and  an 

i  pinb  .My  deprived  ll" 


THE  LATE  GEBARD  HALLOCK  1 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Jasttaky  20,  1 866, 


Rev  .1   W   CUMMIMiS,  |i  l>. 


if'loircli.      He 


.  lulcoralioc,  llicdiNu-i..n  nf  Hil.l™  i.i  rl.u  Ko 
JiiF.LTU.'ii.'H-  unions-  llio  entire  luity.  nicl  more 
v  ,i|,|,i-,.u,  liiuc:  I  ho  i  jiiril  ,.f  Protcst-ioti-on  llnu 
f  liis  tlnric.il  lirctliri'ii  iii  lliis  country. 

GERARD  HALLOCK,  ESQ. 

i'ic.    li'in'i,  iplirll'ur'il tirl,  II, i.  columns  'of 

'i-itu','  i'iai'i'",!','- \,..,'.  l'i.',rn  i„  Hriiniicld,  Mo* 
setts,    Morch    18,   18(10.      His    fotlior.    Rev. 

mis' t  ullcj-c  ill  lftlfi.  Iicini:  then  n  lilllc  more 


1824  we  liliil  Mr.  U.S.  lock  in  I'.oston,  nl  Hit-  Ins 
if  :t  ivccl.lv  |ia|ier,  the  Huston  J'elei/rapli .      Ill  18: 

lie  /',  /■  :ifi::li  finil  Re 


k  Obmrrr, 

ir  until  1828,  when  h 


iniitcil   IjUIll 

lililiojlt   nlic  llillf 


loffnreiirtliiews.    Tlii 


nine,  of  Kx.l'i-p-nloot  llnrcinV.iu  Hoi 


iupL-  of  Mr.  Ommincs,  to  nil 
iiit-rviev.-,  lie  had  cxprn 
jiroichinfr  death.     *lBm 


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[Januaky  27,  18fiet 


THE  TURKISH  MAIDEN. 

Turkish  maiden!    Turkish   maiden! 

Draw  aside  this  cruel  veil, 
If  my  eyes  arc  Roomed  to  fade  in 

Sight  of  Eden,  let  them  fail. 
Maybe,  like  the  Hebrew  prophet, 

'Tis  to  spare  a  heart   like-  mine, 
Ai:J  you  date  not  draw  it  off  it, 

For  its  brightness  is  divine. 

Saw  thu   "Land 'of  lYomi.-e"  t-leni 


Till-:    W1NTKK    WIND. 


(.Mi,    i;1li!    ilu.--   it    sav   1..  tin-    ' 


And  its  dreary,  dismal  ■ 
Her  hupless  heart  api 


■c  iks  lu  tin-.  i;:tilnut  snilnr 
:  thu  CutUg.-  ivimluw   bn-hl, 
the  hr.ntli  inside  all   ruddy 


or  working.  Mr.  Tkumbui.l's  b 
the  President  to  reserve  for  the 
acres  of  good,  unoccupied  bind 
j-kunsus,  and  Mississippi.    .Each  1 


a  price  to  be  mimed  by  the     'uimui 
nd  approved  by  the  President.     Mea: 
ie  f>riM j.i-r  freedmen  are  to  be  I 
"  i  as  the  United  States  1 

ct,  and  necessary  schools  and  i 

be  built  upon  them;    while  as 

productive 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 

Saturday,  January  27,  1866. 


A  LONG  STEP  FOKWARD. 
rilHE  order  of  General  Grajjt,  defining  the 
X    military  authority  of  the  United  States  in 
e  late  rebellious  States,  should  reassure  our 

sidy  to  imperil  the  public  peace  by  delivering 
ic  whole  authority  of  those  States  uncondi- 
tionally into  the  hands  of  a  class  which  can  not 
c  expected  lo  use  ii  in  good  faith. 
The  General's  reply  to  the  request  of  Gov- 
nior  Parsons,  of  Alabama,  that  the  national 
forces  should  be  withdrawn  and  the  local  militia 
armed,  is  also  significant  and  sensible.     It  is 


;  Free d nil  n  s  Bureau  and  extending  its  ed- 
itions to  e  Pity  part  of  the  country  in  which 
freedmen  ai .  to  be  found  in  large  numbers,  is 
e  complement  of  these  military  orders.    It  will 
undoubted);,  be  approved  by  the  President  and 
-w.     This  ia  another  of  the  plain 
signs  that  neither  the  President  nor  Congress 
iki  haste  unwisely,  and  should  cer- 

i    ,11   temper   the    acrimony  of  debate 

meral  subject. 
Thumdull's    bill    recognizes    twn 


as  conferred  ;  and  st 

the  freedmen  .-load 

W'itliuus   ili.n  jn'i.ivi-ii.in  i 


vc-.m^n,  excepting  ilu.se  settled  upon  the 
stands  by  General  Sherman,  and  whose 
freeholu  Mr.  TRUMBuLL'sbillconfirms,  are  with- 
and   tnd  without  the  means  of  buying  it. 

are  'iclple-s  in  the  mid>t  of  a  population 


i  to  employ  you.  Get 
will  not  and  do  not 
st  numbers  do.     And 


nlj-i';d  hii[_di-li  .-rluMiti-.u,  ■ 
t'>  improve  upon  his  retun 
coiiiequenUy  ho  derived  I 


that  the  public  might  lie  informed 
condition  of  the  Mexican 
gratified  by  the  publ: 
spondence  between  our  Governmei 
of  France.  The  important 
spondence  is  that  on  the  1 8th  of  October  M. 
Dhuyn  de  Lucys,  the  French  foreign  Minister, 
wrote  to  the  Marquis  de  Montholon,  the 
French  envoy  at  Washington,  that,  if  the  Unit- 
ed States  would  recognize  Maximilian,  France 
would  doubtless  be  able  to  withdraw  its  forces 
from  Mexico.  On  the  6th  of  December  Mr. 
Seward  replies  that  the  condition  suggested  is 
impracticable ;  and  on  the  ICth  of  December 
he  writes  to  Mr,  Bigelow  that  the  United  States 
earnestly  desire  peace  with  France,  but  that 
peace  would  be  probably  impossible  unless 
France  should  retire  from  Mexico,  and  he  ex- 
presses bis  regret  that  from  a  conversation 
which  M.  Druyn  de  Lhuys  held  with  Mr. 
Bigelow  it  was  clear  that  the  matter  could  not 
be  arranged  upon  any  ground  already  suggested. 
The  position  of  this  country  upon  the  ques- 


tions with  Juarez  and  the  native  republic.  In 
its  eyes,  therefore,  Maximilian  is  an  interloper, 
and  daiigeroustotbe  United  States.  Theirpeace 
and  safety  under  present 

hi-  departure;   and  if,  aft 


haustion  of  every  honorable  persuasion,  France 
still  persists  in  sustaining  Maximilian  by  arms, 
it  will  become  a  practical  question  for  the  Unit- 
ed States  whether  arid  when  and  how  they  will 
sustain  Juarez.  The  whole  world  is  aware 
that  the  circumstances  under  which  France 
went  to  Mexico  are  utterly  changed.  The 
French  enterprise  depended  for  success  upon 
our  national  destruction,  and  France  must  con- 
form to  the  unexpected  result  of  our  triumph 
or  pay  the  penalr;'.  This  conclusion  is  sug- 
gested by  Mr.  Seward,  politely,  but  plainly  and 
emphatically.  We  believe,  as  we  have  always 
believed,  that  France  will  not  push  the  matter 
to  extremity. 

The  question  of  our  Alabama  claims  upon 
Great  Britain  has  also  taken  a  definite  form. 
On  the  21st  of  November  Mr.  Adams  informed 
Lord  Clarendon  that  the  Umced  States  de- 
clined the  proposition  for  a  joint  commission. 
On  the  2d  of  December  Lord  Clarendon  re- 
plied, declining  to  prolong  the  controversy,  e?- 
sertiug  that  "no  armed  vessel  departed  during 
the  war  from  a  British  port  to  cruise  against 
the  commerce  of  the  United  States,"  and  that 
"the  British  Government  have  steadily  and 
honestly  discharged  all  the  duties  incumbent 
eutral  power."     His  Lordship 


the  Alabama  claims.  In  both  cases  th« 
tion  of  the  United  States  is  just  and  dignified  ■ 
and  it  is  certainly  a  matter  of  honest  pride  chat 
in  the  gravest  hour  of  our  history  our 
matic  ability  has  been  as  masterly  as  our  miji. 
tary  skill. 

THE  PRESS  AND  PUBLIC  OPINION. 

Nobody  believes  that  there  is  any 
among  loyal  men  nppo-ed  to  the  sueedie: 
tional  reorganization,  although  there  are  : 
who  say  so  in  the  hope  of  making  political  chj,' 
ital.  The  sole  practical  question  is  oi 
method,  and  we  ure  much  more  likely  t 
by  haste  than  by  reflection.  We  are  ven 
ry,  therefore,  to  see  journals  of  which  a- finer 
sense  of  duty  was  to  be  expected  abdi 
their  function  of  enlightening  public   opinion 

pie  have  made  up  their  minds  to  a  certe 


i  honest  journalist  is  riot  to  guess 
ncy  of  the  popular  current 
b  it  upon  the  theory  that  i 


"   -'"'  him-clt  hi   -,ym 

vhieh  ojipo-ed  y   wmld  I 

it  ought  to   favor  free  trade. 

indeed,  are  free  speech 

ble  but  to  mould  public  opin- 


fear  of  a  majority  ;  and  the  most  c< 
newspaper  in   the   United   States  i 

to  be  the  current  opinion,  however 
We  are  not  unmindful   of  the  r 

parties  to  the  accomplishment  of  : 


friends   i 
i  apparent  t 


actual  difference 
Union  party.      But  nothing  more  surety 
tends  to  create  a  schism  than  hot  and  reclcles 
talk  in  Congress  and   in  newspapers,»and  that 
testy  dogmatism  which  i*  amusing  in  a  katydid 
and  ridiculous  in  an  editor  or  a  legislator. 
There  can  be  no  assumption  more  utl 
baseless  than  that  the  people  of  this  cour 
who  have  the  decision  of  the  question,  are  solely 
anxious  to  have  the  form  of  the  Union  restoi 

that  work  shall  be  accomplished.  They  f 
not  anxious  to  put  fire  to  gunpowder  and  cc 
sider  afterward  the  question  of  explosion.  Pi 
lie  opinion,  we  are  glad  to  believe,  overwbel 
ingly  favors  the  just  and  honorable  settlemc 
of  our  great  questions,  and  it  is  the  plfiast 
duty  of  the  press  to  sustain  and  fortify.it. 

h  at  fine  words  butter  no  parsnips.     The  peo- 
ple are  not  deceived  as  to  the  real  feeling  a 
condition  of  the  late  rebel  section.     They  kn 
perfectly  well  that  the  emancipation  amei 
ment  was   adopted   there   because   the    voti 
could    not   help   themselves.       The   President 
made  it  an  indispensable  preliminary  step  to- 
That  step  has  been  s 


I'H'-nlciit  \ 


patiently 


desirable  and  essential.  That  question  w 
be  "rushed,"  nor  does  the  country,  which  wishes 
for  peace  and  security,  desire  that  it  should  I 
It  will  be  considered  thoughtfully  and  tin 
oughly,  and  settled  sagaciously  and  securely. 


THE    TRAGEDY   OF    THE 

"NEPTUNE." 

Whose  duty  is  it  to  toko  care  that  a 

woman  arriving  in   an    emigrant    ship  at 
port,  and  bei 


after  her  arrival,  shall 
ng  nights  and  days 
v  to  lie  on,  "very  cold 


■  rejiMiklrr 


Tbc  history  of  the  Alabama  has  been  writ- 
ten by  Mr.  George  Bemis,  of  Boston,  in  a  se- 
ries of  exhaustive  papers  upon  the  subject. 
He  shows  from  the  Parliamentary  Blue-books, 
giving  dates  and  documents,  that  an  armed 
vessel  did  depart  from  a  British  port  to  cruise 
against  American  commerce.     That  question 


jireceileiU    . 


a  berth  with  a  little 
mil  dump  and  wet,'! 
posed  and  cold"  until  she  is  frozen  to  death? 

This  was  the  fate  of  Mart  Ann  Gilroy,  a 
passenger  by  the  Liverpool  ship  Neptune,  Cap- 
tain Enoch  W.  Peabody,  belonging  to  Measrfi. 
C.  H.  Marshall  &  Co.  Captain  Peabody  is 
of  opinion,  according  to  his  testimony,  that  it 
is  the  ship's  doctor's  business  to  look  after  the 

formed  to  the  requirements  of  the  British  luff 

under  which  be  shipped  his  pass 

Captain  says  that  it  is  the  businei 

missioners  of  Emigration  io  take  charge  of  sick 

passengers  arriving  '.r.  port ;  and  although  he 

did  not  report  tc  :,.era  that  t 

un  board  or-  ii.aturely  conlim 

Mr.  Farnsworth,  inspect* 
tifics  that  he  boarded  the  Neptim*  on  Tuesday 
afternoon,  and  at  eight  on  Wednesday  morn- 
ing the  passengers  were  all  re  moved,  by  an  age"! 
of  the  Commissioners  of  Emigration,  excepti"" 
Mary  Ann  Gilroy,  who  had  been  confined  o 
Tuesday  night.      All  Wednesday  the  poor  W 

spector  thinks  that  there  was  a  blanket  c 
her,  and  can  not  say  whether  there  was  a 


January  27,  18UG. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY 


■ 


paid  i 
Beach,  who  accompanied  i 


Witb  the  unhappy 


Coroner,  talked 
,  found  her  si'n>i1ik\ 
intelligently,  and  is  of 
opinion  that  she  died  from  want  of  proper  care 
and  attention. 

A  helpless  woman  has  been  frozen  to  death 
upon  a  ship  in  the  harbor  of  New  York.  Some- 
body is  responsible.  Who  is  guilty  of  this 
murder?  Is  it  the  Captain,  the  Doctor,  tho 
Commission  of  Emigration,  the  owner  of  the 
ship?  It  is  pitiful  to  think  of  the  sorrow  and 
suffering  of  these  emigrant  ships,  and  how  easy 
it  is  for  the  guilty  to  screen  themselves.  But 
here  is  an  orleuse  that  will  not  be  hidden.  Are 
our  laws  impotent-  to  protect  tho  defenseless  ? 
If  not,  we  hope  the  press  will  keep  this  tragedy 


brought  to  t 


YOUR  DOXY  AND  MY  DOXY. 


then,  driving  <mf  the.  full  ..-■,■  r^,.,,,!,, 
pressing  with  both  hands,  both  feet, 
knees  upon  all  the  keys  and  pedals,  exclaim : 
"To  doubt  or  deny  this  rule  is  infidelity  begun. ' 
Of  course  it  is.     It  is  arrant  infidelity  ■ 


■mil  is  miite  number  .pji^tkni. 
Tints  there  is  a  familiar  lnhli 
:<_■  im-haiid  is  the  head  of  the  v 


Does  it  merely  state  a  fact,  or  imply  a  rule  ? 
Doej  it  mean  that  as  the  intellect  is  generally 
more  pronounced  in  men,  and  the  feelings  in 
M-<>men,  therefore  the  guiding  force  will 
ally  be  in  the  husband  ?  Does  it  mean 
drunkard  or  an  imbecile  is  the  rightful  arbitrary 
ruler  of  his  wife,  or  that  where  the  superiority 


be  the  judge  when  he  transcends  the  rights  of 
headship  ?  It.  is,  in  truth,  a  phrase  which  will 
be  as  variously  interpreted  as  men's  minds  arc 
different. 

But  that  any  man  should  i 
country,  denounce  a  doubt  of  his  interpretation 
of  this  or  of  any  scriptural  passage  as  infidelity, 
or  doubt  of  the  essential  truths  of  religion,  is  so 
Yet  it  is  done; 
i  who  does  it 
would  doubtless  be  amazed  if  he  in 
convicted  of  infidelity  by  the  same  easy  and  ab- 
surd method.  The  Romish  Church  would  in- 
form him  that  his  whole  interpretation  of  Chris- 
tianity is  the  beginning  and  end  of  irreligion 
and  infidelity.  To  believe  in  the  antipodes 
was  once  held  to  be  mluk-Hiy  ofihe  ri -h.  tea.-Ii- 
ing  of  the  Bible'.  Yet  the  truth  upon  that  sub- 
ject has  been  tolerably  demonstrated,  and  the 
Bible  is  not  discarded.  In  the  light  of  to-day 
it  may  be  shrewdly  suspected  that  to  doubt  or 
deny  any  individual  interpretation  of  a  passage 
m  the  Bible  neither  imperils  good 
religious  faith. 

THINGS  OF  COURSE. 
The  New  York  World,  a  few  months  ago 

spoke  of  Andrew  Johnson  as  an  "  " 
:-'nmken  brute,  m  comparison  with 
Caligula's  horse  was  respectable." 

The  same  paper  described  an  acrimonious 
assault  upon  Secretary  Sewahd,  the  head  of 
President  Johnson's  Cabinet,  as  "the  scrap- 
ie of  the  old  sow  Seward.  " 

*t  need  surprise  no  man  that  the  same  paper 
now  denounces  Abraham  Lincoln  as 
0,n''1  "i  swindler. 

wt  could  more  happily  illustrate  the  na- 
!  s.'igiic-ity  than  that  the  party  of  which 
mper  is  the  fit  organ  has  been  utterly 
;d  out  by  the  American -people  ? 


ROBERT  B.  MINTURN. 

The  true  treasures  of  a  nation  a 
ud  neither  Death  nor  Time  can  s 
ll',,l>  ni.W.1,  dies,  but  the  memory 
;"■  ■"-  -urvives,  ami  is  a  perpetui 
1e  noblest  action.  This  h  so  pi* 
'"'  h'S"  ^  ^-a-^hl.,?  muni, 
very  honorable  man  v,uuM  »vhli  t. 
'"ent,  like  that  of  Robert  B.  ]V 

Gentle,  just,  andgenorous;  mod. 

^""^eLl  by  the  most  sue 

is  se         °vea  b>" the  Poorest  and  most  forgottei 

1     '    <->>»  W™=  bounty-tins  hi,  the 

'■-'  <^«"    tho  American  intlnn  th. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  27. 1 


tart  27, 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


his  wife,  in  a  calm  which  had  followed  one  of 

his  domeslic  tempests,  "you  may  depend  on 

and  your  own  clear,  strong  sense"  will  say  yes 


e  Federal  forces,  

v  than  lie  ■»  of  Hie  rcpid-..  :,„,|  ,le 
ion  of  the  Yankees.  When  [lie  news  ac- 
hat the  fort  hat!  actually  ca|iiiuhil..,l  that 
'iil'dcratc  fore.-  had  failed  to  make  a  viand 
,1  Nashville  it  fell  upon  his  ears,  and 
fvery  many  like  hint,  more  like  [lie  [id. 
tome  great  phenomenon,  some  uuprce- 
ia:eiTii|.liMi,  ,a'  [he  Jaws  of  nature  itself, 
eielv  as  the  news  of  Itattle  an, I  defeat. 
'i-iaut  ami  most  painful  ini|>ics.sion  was 
Ht.u'eii- !  if  we  have  been  defeated— 
:  South— defeated  onee.  what  mat  not 
"■nattier?      The   truth   i-.   the  eve, Us  „f 

le,  and  through 
iviclion     "    ' 

I    Opilli 


always  been 

-I «■■,  .»«l,  Northern  troops  could 

hefore  Southern.  True,  Bowling 
evacuated,  but  that  was  easily 
i-  a  -|.l.uutid  stratagem  to 


stonans  will  write  Manassas  as  the 
.F  the  Confederacy.      The   cup   of 

'  "■lory  there  tl, link  was  followed  by  a 
"»""i' "lion  to  the  South,  of  a  creator 
y'l  history  has  no  instance.  As  has 
betore,  the  iiimsnt.al  nniuion  at  t he 
'"'■■"h'-Tn  iuriueihilit,  had  l,iM,|]v  IK,,| 
"i:  to  establish  it,  ami  Malta-..;,-  la-tii. 
'opinion  into  granite  certainty. 

he  events  following  llame.-as  tail  lo 

5  certainty,  had  such  increase  been 

o  thoroughly  settled  was  the  Sonth- 

-  -t'on  the  whole  subject  that  the  vacuo 

rmrtnein  preparation  going  on  excited 

=  the  people,  the  press,  and  the  offl- 
ast,  from  no  quarter  was  hea  ~ 

dletUise     Would     [,„„„     UX™      -, 


V'",'-,'l  as   traitor,,, ia  if  ,'t 
d,--|"sv,l  as  contemptible. 

'!"    "10-t     linn     an, mi.,    the 

i||l,iiiig   to   se[tle    themsel1 
'^"'hewilloflleaven-c 

"'  ,"'"'  of  an   incvilnblo  o 

'"  ''■'  "' hue ,  when 

;  ;"«--l""y  all  intelligen 


i  the 


' >     ■-  t    loan      a, 

"',|      '''""     la-      aitb.     By  a  most 
J'.'.'"^ '-he  Southern  press  copied  from 
i  and  European  papers,  as  a  general 

■than  human  to  withstand  an  inllu- 


inherent  and  unchangeable 
-■-  ...lehanged;  bin  Ihev  had  be- 
,"      "'"'  <         1      Mil,       t    a 

•  n  ~\  "  '■iteiva  it  was  to  be  called. 
-Bmder  .Slates  may  have  been  less 
I  , ''I  "',.  I^I'lc  "f  'he  Stales  far- 
'"    I'--  Irmn   „  elondl,,.,  .,,vi,  ,,..., 

is  taken,  that  Fort 


sir,, 

-L/avis,   ana  trie  Vest  of  them,  lyi 
mure  than  twenty  miles  iVomWashi 
after  month,  instead  of  marching  right  on,  tak- 
Jng\\as)im-i.|uii,  catching  and  hanging  old  Lin- 
coln.    Set  of  cowards!     You 
Oh,  if  I  was  onlv  a  man  !" 

"  What  would  you  do  if  y 
asked  her  impassive  husband. 

Do!     I'd  raise  fifty  thousand 
"     North 


d  be  glad  enough  to 

it's  what  Mrs.  Bowlea 

end  of  that.  (Ikv  are 

evacuating  Bowling  Green— running  away,  I  call 

it.— ami    Davis   there  in  twenty  mile?  of* Wash- 
going  rii;hi  on!     Next  thing," 


ml  they  have  evacuated  Columbus— even  Ma- 

"My  dear,"  said  Dr.  Warner,  helping  him- 
self to  another  slice  of  ham— for  they  were  at 
dinner  on  the  same  day  as  thai,  in  which  we  first 
introduced  them  to  the  ivadi-i  —  "  ui\  dear,  ]  do 
firmly  believe  that  if  you  were  a  man  you  would 
succeed  vastly  better  than  nine-tenths  of  our 
men.  But  we  have  to  take  them  as  we  find 
them.     Howevei     '" 


ftnoe  vdiieh  a    lacl   niwm, 
ever  it  Hies.    v..u  „iav  UOIi 
hate   ir   heartily;   but     " 
ear,  the  mind 

!S?  "  *■''*•-"«><&«*  "  by  spontaneous 
appeti  o  as  he  palate  recogiu/os  its  natural  f„„d 
As  well  as  he  knew  his  name  did  I.amum  know- 
that  I  he  disaslrous  news  from  l-'ort  Doiielson  was 
true.     Dr.  Peel  knew  it.     Even  Colonel  Jug. 
[—acknowledge  it?  no — yet  uono 
-  body  know  it  to  bo  true.     It  was 
varied  from  bis  path.     Gra- 


Tenno.soo 
„  it  children 
in  all,  but  what  with  being  [brown  from  unbroken 
colls,  and  cholera  morbus  from  eating  green  wn. 
ter-melons,  and  chills  and  fevers,  ono  by  one  all 
the  children  had  died  except  Tom.  As  to  him 
ho  doubtless  owed  his  special  strength  of  consti- 


illlane,  . 


I  the  i 


keeper  going  1" 

And  it  was  only  the  fact ;  Mrs.  Warner  was 
the  neatest  housekeeper  in  Somerville  ;  as  to  the 
other  the  Doctor  lied,  and  he  knew  it. 

But  it  was  of  Colonel  Juggins  we  intended  to 
speak  in  entering  upon  this  chapter.  Slowly 
rode  the  Colonel  home  meditating  upon  the 
news.  Lamum  and  Lamum's  pile  of  newspa- 
pers had  relieved  his  mind  somewhat,  but  not 


'■■ passe, I  Hie  days  of  his  infill 

•  being  a  confirmed  invalid,  and 
unfortunate  habit  of 

xiealion  prelly  much  nil 
from  held  and  eotton-hoi 

mammy's  hm„c  Turn 

learned  to  walk,  and  around  the  chicken-coops 

in  front  of  it  were  spent  his  first  hours  of  piny. 

In  her  way  never  child  had  a  more  loving  mi 

ter  than  Tom  had  in  bis  nianimv,  prefcrrin 

she  deea le, lie  did.  lo  all  of  InTown  dark 

"      paradise  of  childhood  Tom 

bad  of  il ;  permitted  to  get  as  dirty  as  ho  pleased, 

very  little  washing,  and  no  switching      ' 

Nor  was  bis  childhood  less  auspicious  as  it  ad- 

oldcr  years.     Willi  a  [roup  of  littlo 

blacks  at  his  heels  he  haunted  the  calf  lot  and 

stable-yard,  worrying  the  calves,  riding  (he  horses 

lo  wal  r  "bare-back,"  hunting  and  eating  all 

me  cats  and  the 

trees.     Among 
.  did  he  learn  and  praeliee  many 
a  viae  |,eeidiar  to  their  semi-savage 
easily  ingrafted  into  his. 

InduetiineT 
very  little  Tom  learned.      What  with  pi 

truant,  and  "  barring  out"  the  sel Imaste 

holidays  occasionally,  and  idleness  all  Ihc 
ii  was  eery  littlo  Tom  learned  beyond  ret 
writing,  and  the  beginning  of  ciphering. 

The  rest  of  the  story  is  soon  told, 
youth  of  breaking  horses,  ami  swimm 
hunting,  and  accompanying  the  cotton 
occasionally  to  the  ueare'st  city,  anil  frolicking 
little  at  weddings  and  corn-shuckings,  Tom  fell 

love  with  and  married  a  neighbor's  daughter. 
-••t  parents  not 


After  a 


.  did 


and  towering  weeds  had  made 
•etched  cabins 


winds  and 

medieval  ruin  of  the  whole, 
fear  after  year  in  a  row  of 
Tom,  now  Colonel  Juggins, 


« i  contented  ra  his  house  as  any  hand  in  his  lit- 
le  inferior  hut  hard  by.  He  had  become  accus- 
tomed to .bobbing  hi,  head  in  passing  through 
the  low  doorways,  lo  walking  over  ihc  rolling 
puncheon  planks  which  composed  the  floors  As 
to  the  roof,  a  clnp-boaid  or  two  could  bo  nailed  on 
in  half  a  minute  to  keep  out  the  worst  of  the  rain, 
ana  a  rock  or  so,  with  a  handful  of  mud,  could 
•lose  up  the  worst  of  the  cracks  between  the  Iocs 
of  the  wall.  Abundantly  aide  to  build  a  stately 
mansion,  the  Colonel  saw    little  in  bis  linmcd 

sSw^Ss: so accus,o'"cd ,o- B Jto' 

And  so  rolled  the  years  by  with  Colonel  Jug. 

<^^^"::^:^,:;  ^^z:i:: 

Such  there  are,  hut  not  ot  '  Hi at  < -\ ■>-- :  \,  ■,  ■  n  ■  < ■■  i 
»<"■}■     His  dwelling  was  first  c„u-i„  n,',,,,., „.,',, 

which    any   slave,,,,   the   pla ,.„,,„.,,.      ,„. 

clothing  was    rathe,    inleiior    tin ,h,a„i  ,.    ,„ 

the  Sunday  suits  of  bis  men.  As  to  bis  daily 
food,  it  was  about  the  same  in  bouse  and  in  but 
Very  often,  in  fact,  was  Mrs.  Juggins  glad 
enough,  when  company  unexpectedly  came  to 
borrow  of  some  of  their  ••people"  il„,  honey 
tho  dfune?"8'  °r  bl"'0r  ™h  Wl"Cl''  ,0  * '  °"' 
True  the  Colonel  voted  and  his  hnnds  were 
ileiuetl  Ibatiucstiiuabl.   F i : . r . | . b , ,,         t.,,,.  ;,,.  ,,    ii,.. 

t'olonel    knew  very  link ,re   al'last  :,l.,,i.i    i  ],,■ 

|.r,uei|.|e.i  voted   for  or  iieoiiusl    than  the,    aouhl 

llavodone.      The  foloucl,  ha,  all  iheies|,o„s- 

ibilitynnd  bother  of  the  •■1'hue,-  ,,,„,  „,„.,,  ,h,, 

whole,  much  the  leasi  happy  man  on  i I    as 

to    his    religious  |,ri„ei|.|es,    il    lie   was  a'ehnreii- 

mamber.  so  was   „| .,  even    ,, '  hi.  .,,„ 

hands,  and  Ihev , ,,  ,, ,,„„. 

11 "bbalti  loSabbat'li'as'l'ua''' '"  ll,s'nicllon 

fhere    are   two  oilier  classes   of  slavc-OWncrS, 

l."1"'-     TI'C  V.i ii k wner  of  sbi,,..,   Mr,  \eelv 

I1,",111  I11,"1'"'    ■""'    ari.toeratie    slaveholder, 

<  oloncl  liel  Hobcrls  as  a  s, i,,,,.,,.     of  u„.m 

"'I'  "lM  N'cak  laiealier.  1  am  abogelher  un- 
"ll1"1"   ay  lli.it    the  Colonels   is  Ibe   l.,r...,.,l 


"'wimti 


Thai  , 


tthoy 


•  Illggius's    OJlilli V;.a,d     lo 

always  mentioned  il  at  table  when  company  was 
present  and  Ibe  war  the  lopie.  Willi  her  it  was 
a  plain,  common-sense  solution  of  the  whole 
matter,  embracing  the  whole  thing  entirely  and 
conclusively  "We  are  not  going  where'  tbey 
hvc,  and  bothering  them  I  Why  c„„V  they  let 
us  alone  1"  ' 

u  But  since  the  Yankees  would  como  South 
"with  their  guns  and  things,"  Mrs.  Juggins 
yielded  to  the  necessity  of  sending  Tom,  ihoir 

only  son,  to  help  drive  il ,  back.     In  her  idea 

it  was  an  operation  precisely  like  having  the 
chickens  driven  out  of  the  garden— troublesome, 

gins  beard  the  plan  sugeesled  of  building  a  wall 
around  the  South,  over  which  no  Yankee  was 

ew  r  lo  intrude.  It  ,\  „.s  i . ,  |  ■- E .,  | ,  ,  |  us  uie,:i|ibor 
bul    ,ili  ,    duggillS   „,h,|,led    il    as   highly   ha    ible.' 

0  fact  is,  Mrs.  duggius  wars   the  dii).|..  ale  o 
....    '  'oloiieh       Had   yoo    been    inl  rodueed    lo  the 

t'olonel,  and   an    I -   :tf{l.r  tltet   his   wife  in   a 

dore,  say  for  the  first  time,  you  aouhl  have  said 
in  tho  spot:  "There  is  Mrs.  Juggins,  and  I 
mow  it!"  Both  bore  in  weight  about  the  same 
relation  to  two  hundred  pounds,  both  had  the 
iame  large,  red,  good-humored  country  face.  It 
tvns  little  education  Mrs.  Juggins  hnd  when  she 
married,  and  sho  certainly  had  seen  time  for 
nothing  except  the  management  of  the  negroes 
ind  of  her  fast  coming,  fast  going  too,  as  for 
hat,  children  sinee  that  cent.  Except  an  nl- 
nanac,  a  Bible,  and  a  hymn-book  or  two,  there 
.vas  no  reading  in  their  house  save  the  papers. 
Of  those  that  he  took  the  Colonel  decidedly 


''■",  a.aaallv  i 
"'■"  Fort  lie, 


HAMPER'S   WBEKLi. 


[Jampaky  27,  1866, 


mi  the  lip  .-iml 
-iiriinrrs  of  ii.-r 
itco.l  10  hover  ..v 


to  Fort  Donelson  for 
Lamnm  had  cheer 
lit.  hilt  Brother  Barl 


J'  rum  III-  soli 


l!r..iher   Hint,  r    |.r.oe,l 

II     "IL         'J'o.lolll. 


TuseumMa  and'Hiin'snlhV  loo,  fo/ 

"Well,  yon  take  it  sarin  like  than 
said  the  planter,  with  :   el.   >aiv  laov.-. 

"Why  not.  Brother  .liieeins?  It 
Lord,  isn't  it?     Besides,  what  do  I  c 

what  ond.t  von  to  tare  about  DonC-lsO 
ville.aia)  i he  like,  v.hen  I  know  and  v, 


after  all  the  talk  we've  bad  I    Well,  Broil 

j-jagins,  yon  mast  pardon  me  saying  it,  bit 

am  surprised  and  frrieved,'  said  the  preaehei 

"Sarprised    at    what?"    asked    the    plant 


tenia   n«   iV-liI m'  1-iTiniit. 
a-  one  man.  I  don't  under- 


\i,-."'said  the  planter,      "It's  neal  three 
tie!,,  that  book.      1  only  skimmed  ever 

illy  do  not  think,  P.roilier  . luteins."  said 


the  ,Mis-i,-i|ipi  Vallev.      Not  i. 
session  1" 

And    Colonel   .luteins    was 


if  God  did  not  own 


He  lets  Fort  Donelson 

said   to   11 

r.i  It 

n;r    lite    Inn 

gat 

t    help   see 

thai  ( ;...i 

l'0o],|..     In 

gel  th.ii,  bo 

■  with  you  any  dnj 
ke.     No  man,  at  1 


r  Juggir 


Mrs.  Juggins  d  rew  still  nearer 

"Brother  Juggins,"  stud  (he  preacher,  after 
he  had  Ibund  the  place  in  the  large,  well-thumbed 
Bible,  and  putting  on  his  pulpit  manner  as  an 
h|.LM'n]i:il  cleiL'vriiiiii  would  put  on  his  gown, 
"you  often  say  you  are  a  plain  man.  Well, 
you  rim  understand  a  plain   passage  in  the  Bi- 

"That  passage  in  Timothy?"  inquired  the 
Colonel. 

much  of  the  Bible,  I  suppose.  This  book  was 
given  to  guide  us.  Brother  Juggins?  Sister 
Juggins?"  Very  solemnly.  The  persons  in 
question  nodded  a  hearty  assent.  "Now  list- 
en," continued  the  preacher,  and  he  read,  in  a 
•lt.w,  solemn  manner:  "  It's  First  Timothy,  sixth 


•  yoke  count  their  own  i 
nor,  that  the  name  of  < 
not.  blasphemed.'     Nex 


■  vtln    ..I  I 


rcs 


and  seeing  consolation  in  it. 

"Did  I  ever  say  we  would  escape  some  fight- 
ing, some  being  defeated  before  we  got  through  ?" 
asked  the  preacher — "  tell  me  now,  Brother  Jug- 
planter  with  a  thoughtful  brow.  "Christian 
his  father's  house,  our  forefathers  driv  of  God 


split  off  from  the  rest,  too. 
when  Secession  first  started,  c 
vou  proved  from  the  Bible  I 
fight,  not  a  bit.  God  wouldr 
of  Solomon  fight  the  tribes 


-peaking  abuuf.  'lie.'  that  is.  every  Al 
ist,  '  is  proud,  kuowin'j  noihing,  but  doth 
■  jiK'-iinii-  .-iinl   -nife-  of  word-,  whereof 


le  place.      "  I  just  a-k   you.  Hi-other  Juggins, 
i-t.-v  Juggins,  isn't  all  that  a  description  of  the 
ortliem  people— the  Abolitionists?" 
'•I  suppose  it  w,"said  the  planter  for  self  and 

"What  I  say,"  added  Mrs.  Juggins,  "is  just 
lis.  Why. can't  them  people  slay  at  their  own 
oine,  mind  their  own  business,  let  us  alone? 
iTe  ain't  goiif  up  where  they  live  to  trouble 

"  Exactly,  Sister  Juggins.  But  here's  what  I 
am  to  get  at,"  continued  the  preacher.  "This 
.  the  Word  of  God  we're  reading.  It  says  all 
.at  of  the  Northern  people  plain  and  clean, 
lext  it  tells  us  exactly  our  duty  toward  them- 
's as  pbdn  as  any  part  of  the  Bible.  Listen:" 
nd  the  preacher  opened  the  Bible  again,  and, 
milling  bis  finger  under  the  passage,  read,  very 
lowly  and  with  prodigious  emphasis,  the   rest 


!'  God's  other  peculiar  pei.pl.-. 
■'re  going  ro  get  it  worse  ami 
nth  till  »e  l-arn  to  trust  only 
Ic-ve  you  know  I've  bad  some 

what  is  my  strongest  eNperi- 
igious  feeling  which  hnppilics 

1  his  wife  looked  up  expect- 


side?     The  God /worship  is! 

e  people  who  have  apostatized 
as  certain  this  day  he's  on  our  t 
e  wany  God.  As  a  ju,t  Lord  1 
c  people—  mill  do  it.'     Look  at 


ke.  If  '.hose  poor,  mi-cral.le,  blin- 
nly  knew  it— the  ruin  that  is  eomin 
■om  his  hand !      I  never  felt  to  pi 


i.-e  tlcv  broke  ii,»  our  Chi 
rk.  in  the  G.-m-ral  Center. 
■   Church   Smirk   ha,   keen 


.■v.    Ghirvt 

l    !        F..1      nil 


air  combed  back  off  of  his  low  Olid 
.end.  Were  you  to  see  him  in  a 
al!  and  stooped  form  promised  lit— 
nendotis  powers  of  speech  possessed 
iere  was  a  peculiar  thickness  and 


brighter    and 


the  lead,  as  it  was  the  first  in  the 

f  dreamed  how  deeply  and  thorough- 

n  the  denomination  to  the  North 
wed  the  Southern  politicians  as  much 
d  them.     Bishops,  presiding  elders, 

ivith  every  religious  body  the  fee!- 
>per  mid  stronger  than  any  merely 
ly  ot    men   ever    know.      Even    the 


men  as  Brother  Ba 


\SS 


by  the  unceasing  efforts  of  their  mi 

inters,     v 

bined.     By  far  the  ablest  argume 

most   okujiient   appeal--   lor  Secessk 

ministcrs;  and  what  the  mass  of  inferior  minis- 

tors  lucked  in  nl.ilu,  .and  eloquence 

and  by  the  press  they  more  than  made  up  bv 

tin-it-  uiinci--.il,   incessant,  and  eag 

.    infill,  in. 

their  public  piavers  on  the  Sabbath 

Assuming    as    impregnable    that 

I:e.:'lo"it':.| 

forty  years  lias  seen  evolved   frorr 

those  among  the  Secessionists  who 
ers  in  the  Bible  planted  thcmselve 

since  the  universe  afforded  no  othei 

CMlieCH;.!,], 

ition.     Multitudes  who  never  opened  the  Bible 

ion  if  for  no  other  decreed   therein.     Avowed 
ifidels,  too,  accepted  eagerly  so  much  of  Sacred 

Viit  as  proved  slavery  right. 


■  !l  .!,< 


ndcr  ns  fable.     And  i 

a  thousand  side  consi 


mind  — no  urn  i.-ipm  mi)  ,,('  or  i -v,  -vi-ion  for  tha: 
lSUon  furni-lu-  no  in-lancc  of  men  more  al 
solutely  confident  of  the  aid  of  Heaven.  Tr 
nearest  parallel  lo  their  confidence  in  history: 
seen  in  the  case  of  the  Zealots  in  Jerusalem  ; 
its  bloody  fall.  Ah,  direst  of  all  infatuation  t 
count  with  such  confidence  that  Almighty  Go 
is  upon  our  side  when  He  is— not  I 


the  turf  folded  luck,  and  within  the  eaci 
_  stood,  as  before,  the  white  Bone  Man  w 
dniopiiig  Ijead  and  fulded  hands,  at  the  vault  do 
"  by  the  judgmi 


■  1  well  might  be  be  c 

year  by  year,  befor 
he  had  been  a  lawless  knight,  fearing 


of  God 

not  God,  nor  regarding  man,  and 


old  lord  in  anger  slew 

iiu  hi-empsewouldnotre 

.,,,1       1  ,!,.,„.;     ,i    .  :, 

head  of  the  tomb,  with  the  dim  eyes  fixed  on  t 

sepulchral  stone  which  hid  the  Lily,  and  there 

he  <  oi|.sf.  lii. crime  n  -kelf-if 

been  effected.     But  o 

bad  crumbled  into  a  li 

le  heap  of  gray  dust,     11. 

this  was  effected  I  w 

peasantry  tell  the  tale. 

One  night  there  was 

uproar  in  the  tavern  of  Ho 

money,  had  been  drinking  and  gambling  all  day, 
and  purposed  continuing  the  Biuno  amnsements  all 
night.  Their  drunken  shouts  and  laughter  con- 
tinued  till  long  after  every  house  in  the  village  was 
cl.ieil  and  even  light  extinguished. 

They  were  waited  upon  by  a  servant  girl' who 
had  been  deserted  by  her  husband,  and  who  had  but 

poverty  she  had  been  driven  into  service.  Many  a 
rude  and  ugly  joke  at  her  expense  was  made  by  the 

patiently  waiting  on  them  without  speaking  more 
than  was  necessary. 

As  she  came  out  of  the  cellar  with  full  pitcher, 
■  nl  the  brothers  ;..:iid  to  her,  laughing: 

"  Well,  my  girl  I  I  suppose  you  are  busy  making 


Tin-  P'"jj-  li'tile  Inch  «il|  ,,.,-■, |  ti.nni.  hide- 
■■  I'll   tell  you   what."   said    the    second 

■-linking   hi--  head  d kenly  ;    ''you  must 

money  to  buy  them,  ami  tti'.-  cradle,  too." 
"Only  too  willingly,  Sir!" 
"  Well,  I  don't  mind  giving  ,  -m  the  moi 

linn-d    ihe   thougbtlest,    lei  low  ;    "if   voi 


hope;  "tell  me  what  I 

"Nothing  very  diffic 

dif-fi-cult,"  quoth  the  i 


•   .lull   ffk-li   m.    I 

church  door!     I 


January  27,  18Gb.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


in   horror,   and    her   cheek 

id,  faintly,   "do  not  it 
iiy,  and  tempt  God  wit 


The  poor  girl  trembled 


'ii  lit  the  red,  h'jHt'-d  laces  of 


,  and  then,  flying  ti 
.ronol^h.-ighed 


turned  to  the  parlor  and  agreed  to  do  what  the  threi 
men  required. 

As  she  left  the  tavern  all  was  dark,  a  keen  wint 
blew  over  the  count  iv,  be  neath  a  still,  star-s  paneled 
cloudless  sky;  it  w'aiLd  among  the  eaves  of  thf 
house-,  and  tossed  the  autumn  leaves  about  in  tli. 
square  of  the  little  town.  The  church  stood  on  t 
rise;  as  the  young  woman  approached  it  her  hear! 

Shu  opened  the  church-yard  gate  as  the  evening 
hell  tinkled  ,  she  stood  still,  and  recited  her  "  Avi 
Maria"  with  fervor,  then  stepped  out  of  sight,  tc 
nllow  the  sexton  to  return  without  observing  her. 
Hie  old  man,  bent  double  with  age,  went  coughing 
from  the  grave-yard  to  his  bed,  and  she  remained 
alone  among  the  dead.  For  some  moments  a  strug- 
gle raged  within  ber;  she  shuddered  at  the  prospecl 


walled  up  the  path  leading  to  the  church  door. 

-And  now  there  was  a  feeble  glimmer  in  the  east, 
unci  the  new  moon  peeped  above  the  horizon;  and 
=ho  -hucldered  as  she  stepped  into  the  shadow  of  a 
mulberry-tree  which  grew  in  the  church-yard. 

She  turned  the  handle  of  the  door,  and  the  latch 
flew  up  with  a  noise  which  was  echoed  tli  rough  the 
Faults  and  aisles  of  the  church.  A  feeble,  rosy 
;low  from  the  lamp  burning  before  the  Blessed  ,Sac- 

aiuent  gleamed  on  the  altar,  lint  a  white  moonbeam 
;hrough  a  low  window  fell  along  the  west  wall, 
winging  out  the  skull  and  folded  hands  as  frosted 

■  -    > <e_-  3-.--1  i-  i:i^iin-i  ihe  :■'■<.'■■■■  gh.inrn.f  Hie 

recess  in  which  stood  the  Rone  Man  of  Hostonic. 
is  Ihe  frightened  girl  looked  on  the  skeleton  it 
;eemed  to  her  as  though  the  Hesuless  mouth  moved 
n  prayer,  and  as  though  a  blue  flame  nickered  in 

The  girl  summoned  up  all  her  courage,  grasped 
he  skeleton,  flung  it  upon  her  back,  and  ran  through 
If  church-yard,  passed  the  gate,  (few  with  her  rat- 
ling load  across  the  market-place,  dashed  into  the 
iivern,  cast  the  Bono  Man  on  the  table,  and,  sink- 
ng  on  to  a  bench,  burst  into  a  flood  of  tears. 

A  silence  fell  upon  those  in  the  rnom;  all  looked 
vith  a  shudder  at  the  heap  of  bones,  and  then  with 
iBtonishment  at  the  girl.  Even  the  three  brothers 
'ecoiled  from  the  skeleton  as  it  was  flung  before 
hem  ;  the  courage  of  the  maid  amazed  them  ;  they 
iad  reckoned  on-'her  turning  back  at  the  church- 
■ard  gate,  and  had  calculated  on  joking  her  on  the 

il"ie  of  her  courage. 

But  the  eldest,  staggering  to  his  feet,  said:  "I 
ell  you  all,  the  lass  has  well  earned  her  money. 


from  any  thine  very   tenible; 
re  following.    Not  for  any  money 


old  position  in  Hostonic 


"(Hi,  Sir1"  gasped  the  maid,-  "I  can  not,  in- 

I  swore  that  I  never  would  tempt  God  lik..> 

now  disappeared,  mid  she  hh 

into  her  cheek  as  evenly  as 

-  "■    lull  you,    quoth  the  toper;  "  notacroschen 

Again  she  knelt  to  the  w 

I.1/1"--11  h-'mihe-I  have  no  children  of  mv 

> ■  when  it  is  old  enough  fo  go  to  school,  and  1 
II  lh.se  comrade   here,  (o  witness   that  the  lad 

floor;    she  wrung    her   hinds. 

object  which  -|>r  i-l.llv.l  a.-ni-s  f  he  table.     Her 
heaved  ,  she  folded  her  hands  in  prayer  and 
her  eye-.      The  agitation    of   her  feelings,  and  the 
battle  of  conflicting  passions,  were  clearly  traceable 


yed,  an   iden  shor   i 


to  oiler  her  little  one  to  God,  if  He  would  protect 

She  traversed  the  market-place  with  her  clatter- 
ing burden,  and  began  to  ascend  the  hill,  scarcely 
hearing  the  rattle  made  by  the  bones,  for  ihe  had 
become  u<ed  to  the  sound. 

But  as  she  neared  the  grave-yard  the  weight  of 
her  load  became  greater  and  greater,  and  the  bur- 
den bowed  her  down.  This  she  did  not  obscrvo  at 
lir.-t,  as  her  senses  were  in  a  whirl  .it'  confusion, 


all  hut  pro-.fra.ied  beneath  t 
to  weigh  a.  I]iin.li.'.|-w.  jght. 
Iterate  effect  that  >he  scrami 
)-'-:teh,'d  I  lie-  niche,  and  tried  t 
burden.  With  uu.-pp;ikah|e  I 
this  was  now  bevend  her  p->w< 
inteilaccd  upon  her  bosom,  ai 


i  pardon  for  me  from  1 


load  which  seemed 

ed  Into  the  church, 
shake  off  her  awful 


Every  hair  on  the  poor  girl's  bend  stiffened,  and 

:red  as  a  leaf  in  the  wind,  and  was  unable  to  articu- 
ate  a  word  in  reply. 

"  Wilt  thou  do  my  will?"  asked  the  voice,  and 
ho  maid  felt  the  bands  tightening  their  grasp,  and 
ieard  the  creaking  of  the  hone,  finger.-;  again-t  <?ach 


lingers  fell  apart  with  a  click, and  1  he  burden  ?. 
from  her  shoulders.  She  turned  and  looked 
skeleton.     A  dim  and  phantom  life  seemed  t 


The  jaws  stirred,  and  the  same  strange  voice  rushed 
into  the  girl's  ear. 

"Lift  the  stone  from  the  vault  door,  and  go 
clown  the  steps.  You  will  find  at  the  bottom  a 
woman  in  black,  sitting  in  her  coffin,  by  lamplight 
reading  a  book.  Plead  with  her  for  pardon.  Till 
she  pardon3  me  I  can  tin.',  no  forgiven, -?  witn  C- •.■!.'' 

The  maid  obeyed.     She  lifted  the  slab  from  its 

rose  at  her  touch,  and  disclosed  a  steep  flight  of 
With  swimming  brain  the  girl  descended  into  the 


reached  the  lowest  step  i 


s  sculptured  upon  them. 
iths  of  flowers,  on  others 
ts.     The  light  by  which 


tre  of  the  vault  over  an  open  sarcophagus.  There, 
draped  in  black,  in  her  stone  coffin,  with  her  pale 
face  supported  on  her  hand,  her  head  surrounded 
with  a  garland  of  faded  roses,  sat  a  woman  reading 
out  of  a  large  book  which  lay  open  on  her  lap.    The 


With  faltering  voice  the  girl  besought  forgiv 
is  for  the  Bone  Man.  No  answer.  The  worn; 
the  com n  seemed  to  be  unconscious  of  the  pre 
:  e  of  a  li\  ing  being  before  her.  More  earnest 
taded  the  maid,  her  heart  beating,  and  a  det 
siety  to  obtain  tfie  knight's  release,  tilling  h 
npassionate  bosom.  She  called  to  the  woman 
nenibrance  ber  old  love  for  the  knight,  the  dec 
row  which  ho  had  endured  for  so  many  age 
nding  d.-urived  of  rest  before  her  tomb. 


ng  of  obtaining  any  tl 


e  obtained  my  pardoi 


hook  without  raising  her  eyes  to  the  weeping  pe 
head.     An  hour  pussc.l  thus;   the  girl  clasped  i 


ange  in  the  pallid  woman,  save  ll 
out  her  temples  had  shed  ifs  wi 
I  had  broken  into  tiny  fresh  buds. 
I  weary,  despainng'ol'  success,  tli 


girl  asrain  retraced  I 
The  skeleton  was  at  tl 
breathless  eagerness,  an 
ghastly  face. 

"  Has  she  forgiven  m 
The  maid  sadly  shook 

procure  my  release  I  am 

"  ling  bony  li 


f  her  hope,  she  asked  f 


"  She  has  pardoned  y«,u  !"  she  cried,  as  she  saw 
the  white  lace  gleaming  down  to  her. 

The  voice  which  replied  was  soft  as  the  murmur 
of  a.  summer  breeze  mining  the  corn. 

"  You  have  done  well  in  asking  in  behalf  or  an 
innocent  child.  I  in  iny  life  spared  not  innocence, 
and  God  sentenced  me  to  find  no  rest  t 
name  of  an  innocent  child  I  could  obtain  release." 

The  skeleton  knelt  toward  the  Blessed  Sacra- 
ment, before  which  burned  tiie  sanctuary  lamp. 

"Glory  be  to  God!"  be  said,  and  extended  his 
fleshjess  arms,  and  his  jaws  moved  in  prayer  and 
thanksgiving. 

The  girl  looked  at  him,  kneeling  in  the  glory  of 
the  moon,  and  a  sweetness  and  calm  settled  over 
the  face,  divesting  it  of  all  that  was  dreadful. 
S(.l'll\  .-iii.!.  .ditix-i  inijH'Veepublv  h<  :-.■,■  i r i ..-.  1  i«.  m  It 
away,  with  the  peaceful  and  beautiful  expression 
on  the  uplifted  countenance  steadily  brightening, 
cock  rang  out  sharply 


^Tnat  when  you  do 'get  up  you  won't  be  a  second  draa- 
ll)f  St  VthnuT  "P  '"  ™6^?  tW°  mlDUtea  ?°m  MW- 


'  Whnt  ivouM   veu   dike,   mv  mnii,  to  carry  a  message 
me  tYmiL  tuae  {Hie   bnlt-n  Kerr.'. -h  .n.-e)  to  the  (,V„|„Q 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  27,  1866. 


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I ..',  .. 

THE  PLAINS.— [Sketched  uy  Tueodoue  R.  Dayib.] 


jA>TL'AtiY  27,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


JOURNEYING  ON  THE  PLAINS. 

There  are  many  things  which  at  this  time  draw 
i  toward  the  Gkand  Overland  Stack 


BANKING-HOUSE,  DENVER  CITY,  COLORADO-MINERS  BRINGING    IN  GOLD   DUST.-[Sk 
Route  is  also  attracting  attention  to  the 


intense  popular  interest.  One  of  these  things  is 
the  Pacific  Railroad  project,  in  which  there  is  now 
so  lively  an  interest— the  route  proposed  for  that 
il  with  the  Overland 
Route.  The  recent  trip  of  Speaker  Colfax  and 
his  party  "across  the  continent"  by  the  Overland 


■    <'f    III''     (mil, MIS    U|>i>ll     ).:llli. 

")  th(.Hil.j(.«-L       Wr  ;    . ■  I ■ 


THE  OVERLAND   COACH   OFFICE,  DENVER  CITY,  COLOliADO.-^uirrcuiiD  u*  Thbodok 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  27, 


verland   Stage   Route  (of  lvliicli  Br:s  IIoiuka* 


bushels  of  gold  .In) 


I-KACK  on  j;ai;ti[; 


.mill.- ache 

'111.-   di.l  hiit 


duly  of 
Among 


and  Denver.  Information  hud  just  I  teen  received  of 
depredations  and  murders  committed  on  tho  Smoky 
Hill  rout©  by  a  band  of  Indians  supposed  to  bo 
•tho  lead  of  '   FAST  1',i-:ak,"  «h  n, 

1  Chalky   llluirslalinn  with  a     mall  e-corl 


rynifii  wcr-  dispatched  to  ilsns-d 


of  Pike's   Pc«k       The  vat 


•  transacted  in  Denver  in  wonderful,  win  n  the 
II  number  of  inhabitant*  J6  considered.  The 
rowded  with  miners  in  ail 


)  of  the  Northern  States, 


eStal 


1,620. 


usual   in  tho  Eastern    States, 

crably  oNceeried  the  males,  and  of  the  latter  there 

were  8-J,."H!  altogether.     Up  to  December  1,  18G2, 

lii -t  call  ol  t ii n  President  for  troops— Rhode  Island 
furnished  14,0-JO  men  to  the  army  and  1400  to  the 
navy,  or  almost  1  in  5  of  her  total  male  population, 
and,  of  course,  far  more  than  that  proportion  of  her 
men  of  lighting  age,  between  IS  and  45.     In  the 


Iter  1802,  and  I  have  no 

no  need 


ind  I  should, 
rink  fiom  .Lung  so.  Rhode 
lallost,  U  t tnth  in  rank  of  all 

porous.      If,  in  the  later  years 
I  substitutes  in  I.hl,'..  nuniii  rs, 


Rhode  I-land  could  scarcely  have  been  I'ounc 
diana,  in   1800,  possessed' 8,101, TIT   acres 


threatened.  When  Morgan  made  h 
State  fifl  000  tendered  their  service:? 
four  hours,  and  nearly  -20,(ion  wen 


of  15  and  40.  The  lirst  blond  shed  in  t 
against   the  slave  power,  as  in  the  Revolu 

war  against  F.ntrland,  ™  Ma-sachusctls 
The  fit  1 1  Massaclnr.-elts  was  lire, I  on  in  the 
of  B.iltimnre  on  April  J''.  1*0],  and  had  to  I 
way  thninj'h  1h*  tr.v.n,  lining  !  killed  and  :id 
ed  in  the  operation.  Well,  the  number  • 
demanded  ol  Massachusetts  during  tho  w 
117,624.     The  number  furnished  by  her  (>< 


and  of  "  New  I-nul I  hiring   foreign 

In  do  the   fnjivinr:")   iliinl;    were    foreign 
Ju-t  <tn7.      This  s  not  in.  hid.'  men  h 


I    that   the  most   r.'liabl-  statistics  ;i 


dl  classes  of  mv  countrymen 'are  at  last  not  only 

nr.alizod  Americans  !■"-.  and  ol  foreigners  :>  per  cent. 

I   can   honestly  say  that   I   have   chosen    these 

States   at    hazard,    iind   thai    a    scrutiny  of  the   re- 

maining  iV'-c  Slates  would  -ive  a  very  similar  re- 
sult.     And  now  let  us  consider  what  that  result  i~. 

Khodo  Inland,  Indiana,  and  Ma-'-arln.i-ei  ts  mac  per- 

mule of  all  that  was  most  precious  and  dearest  to 

haps  equal  in  population   this  metropolis  with   its 

1  ,  nt  in  a  slingde  upon  which    not    only   their  own 

imiueiliato  suburbs:   while  one  of  them  alone  act- 

Ufa as  a  nation,  but  tho  future  of  at  least  one-third 

ually  si  hi  lo  aeti.-o  service,  in  the  four  vear.s  of the 

if  (he  world,  watt  nt  stake. 

war,  an  army  equal  in  innubers  to  the  total  volun- 

teer loree  now  underarms  in  Cieat  Britain.      Rhode 

imc  for  bringing  out  into  somewhat  clearer  light 

Island  is  not  so  populous  as  Slmlheld  ■    and  in  eight- 

a side  of  tho  drama  whicji  has  not  been  as  yet  fairly 

een  months  .she  armed  and  seul   South  If.  nun  of  her 

nvsentod  to  us  hero;  I  mean,  lirst,  the  strain  on 

citizens.      I  knov.   ih.-.t  Knejaud  in  like'  m  ed  would 

he  resources  of  the  Northern  States  while  the  war 

be  equal  to  a  liko  effort.      Let  us  honor,  then,  as 

they  deserve  the  people  of  our  own  lin-aev  to  whom 

gentle  birth  and  nurture,  who,  so  fur  from  shrink- 

the call  has  come,  and  who  have  met  it. 

ing  from  tho  work,  and  righting  by  substitute  (as 

1  need  scarcely  pause  to  note  how  the  Northern 

was  asserted  bv  somo  of  our  leading  journals),  took 

it  least  their  fair  .-hare  ol  all  the  darners  and  mN- 

people  have    paid    in    purse    as  well    as   in   person. 

Let  one  instance  suffice. 
of  Massachusetts  for  taxes  to  support  the  general 
government  amounted  to  fourteen  millions,  every 
fraction  of  wl  " 


wo  should  reach  a  figure  almost  exceeding  belief. 
I  have  no  means  of  stating  it  accurately,  Out  am 
quite  safe  in  putting  it  as  high  as  25  uuO.000  dol- 
lars, actually  raised  and  paid,  bv  a  State  with  a 


And  now  for  my  s 


large,  I  might  have  sait 


ice.     And,  lh>t,  thai  ol   .1    Ru.,-cll  Low- 
an  to  whose  works  1  owe  more,  per-ouu]- 

>  tbo-e  ol  any  oilier  American.      It  would 

>  find  a   nobler  record.      Th ■■  young  men 


in  order  comes  Willie  Pnlnam,  age  21,  the  sole,  si 
viving  son  of  Lowell's  sister,  a  boy  of  the  high* 
culture  and  piomise,  mortally  wounded  at  Hal 
Bluff  in   October,   1861,   in   the   first  "months 


iiiy  company  win  n  I  v,i.  hit/ 
tgo  home.  He  had  been  first  i 
aid,  and  was  taking  private  ] 
:hool  when  the  war  broke  out 
41  at  Bull's  Run,  in  Annus t.  1 


ephew  of  Low.  lis 


Cabot  Russell,  the  third  of  Lowell's  nephews,  then 
a  captain  of  a  black  company.  Stephen  George 
Perkins,  another  nephew,  was  kil" 


■of  ihe  James  who  died  "dressing  his  line,''  was 

e  bad  visited  Europe  for  health,  and  made  long 
ding-tours  in  Spain  and  Algeria,  where  he  became 
consummate  horseman.  On  the  day  after  the  6th 
lassachuseits  were  fired  on  in  Baltimore  streets, 
harles  Lowell  heard  of  it,  and  started  by  the  next 
ain  to  Washington,  passing  through   Baltimore. 

jnded,  but  ho  arrived  on  foot  at  Washington  in 
rty-eight  hours.  In  tT  ose  first  days  of  confusion 
?  became  agent  for  Mn  sachusetts  at  Washingion, 


i  I  he  winter  of  1802.  He  was  placed  in  command 
f  the  cavalry  force  which  protected  Wa-hingion 
uring  the  dark  davs  of  1863.  In  Sheridan's  brill- 
int  campaign  of  1864  lie  commanded  the  cavalry 
rigade  of  four  regular  regiments,  and  the  2d  Mas- 
ichusetts  volunteer  cavalry.  He  had  thirteen 
orses  shot  under  him  before  the  battle  of  Cedar 
reek,  on  October  19;  was  badly  wounded  early  in 
iat  day,  and  lifted  on  to  his"fourteeth  horse  to 
■ad  the  final  charge,  so  faint,  that  he  had  to  give 
is  orders  in  a  whisper.  Urged  by  those  round  him 
)  leave  the  field,  he  pressed  on  to  the  critical  point 
'    "   "    i  last  charge   which 


.'    battle.   ,.;  t 


I    is  the  death  of  (his  nephew  v 
P.iglow  Papers."  pnbli-lted  in  c 


ore   (lie  charge's   thunder, 


ext  day  of  ins  wounds,  leaving  a  widow 
,  liims'df   not    thirty.      The   G<ii-tb\   m 

commis-ion    as    general    was    published, 


country  could  he  tier  have  spar,  d  himself,  ami  that 

(here  was  Ml qmdiiv  of  a  soldier  which  he  could 

have'  wished  added  lo  Charles  Lowell. 

Mv  first  example,  then,  -ives  ns  one  family,  in 
wluei]    there   was    no    -nldier   in    IS 00.   lo-ing    eight 

years'  righting. 

I  have  mentioned  the  name  of  Motley  above.    Let 


serving— three  Lothrops,  one  of  whom  was  killed 
in  Louisiana  ,  Major  Motley,  badly  wounded  in  Vir- 
ginia early  in  1804  .  and  Major  Stack  pole,  another 
highly -distinguished  graduate  of  Harvard,  who 
served  through  the  whole  war,  and  has  now  re- 
sumed his  practice  as  a  hamster.  Miss  Motley 
married  Captain  Ives,  a  gentleman  of  fortune  in 
Rhode  Island,  who  was  traveling  in  Europu  when 
the  war  broke  out.  He  volunteered  into  the  navy, 
commanded  the  Potomac  flotilla,  and  accompanied 
Burnside's  expedition  to  North  Carolina,  where  he 


The  name  of  AVadsworth  is  better  known  h 
than  most  American  names  hi  consequence  of 
English  connection.     The  head  of  the  family  i 


•c  on  the  Union  troops  in  Baltimore  h 


i  capital.      Ho  acted  as  aid-de-camp  t 


become  such  that  at  the  beginning  of  t 


January  27.  186ft] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


Potomac  applied  to  the  War  Department  to  have 
him  with  them  as  brigadier.  He  was  killed  in  the 
Wilderness  in  the  last  advance  on  Richmond.  His 
three  sons  have  all  served,  the  youngest  having  en- 
listed at  sixteen-  Thus  every  man  in  the  family 
served;  and  the  only  married  daughter  is  the  wid- 


great  need ;  and  have  fought  well,  and  worked  hard, 
though  the  present  holders  of  these  honored  names, 
mostly  quite  young  men,  have  not  had  time  to  reach 
their  ancestors'  places.  The  bearers  of  great  names, 
I  take  it,  do  not  get  such  a  start  in  the  States  as 
with  us  at  home.  A  descendant  (a  grandson,  I  be- 
lieve) of  Alexander  Hamilton,  however,  became  a 
general,  while  several  of  his  cousins  remained  in  low- 
er ranks.  Colonel  Fletcher  Webster,  only  surviv- 
ing son  of  Daniel  Webster,  was  killed  in  Virginia. 
Perhaps  the  man  who  excited  most  the  hopes  and 
martial  enthusiasm  of  Americans  in  ihv  first  months 
of  the  war  was  Major  Theodore  Win  throp,  adescend- 
"    -ernor  John  Wintlimp,  seiiolar, 


killed 

of  Great  Bethel,  June  10, 18G1.     A  sop 

istinguisbed  in  the  last 


i  Boston  group. 


of  General  Porter,  w) 


other  Transatlantic  ones  to  us— 
Longfellow's  young  son  (Charlie, 
call  him)  has  managed  to  light  a  campaign,  and  get 
badly  hit  in  Louisiana,  at  an  age  when  our  hoys 
are  thinking  of  their  freshman's  term  at  Oxford. 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (junior),  poet,  artist,  Greek 
scholar,  virtuoso,  has  been  twice — I  was  going  to 
say  killed — well,  shot  through  the  body  and  neck, 
and  again  in  the  heel ;  and,  having  fought  thnaigh 
all  to  the  end  of  the  war,  is  again  busy  with  brush 
andpen.  Olmstcad  has  fought,  with  mightier  weap- 
ons than  rifled  cannon,  at  the  head  of  the  Sanitary 
Commission.  Of  four  brothers  Dwight,  two  were 
killed,  and  a  third  fought  hiffway  to  general.  Whit- 
tiers,  Appletons,  Lorings,  Crown  inshields,  Dehons 
— but  I  will  tax  my  readers'  pa..,'!ice  no  longer 
with  rolls  of  names  which,  perhaps,  ':v  most  of  them, 
will  be  names,  and  nothing  more !  Let  this  last 
summing  up  of  the  work  of  men  of  birth  and  posi- 
tion in  one  State  suffice  (I  choose  Massachusetts 
again,  because,  thanks  to  Governor  Andrew,  we 


than  as  to  any  other  Stat").  Since  the  declaration 
of  war,  434  officers  from  Massachusetts  have  been 
killed— 9  generals,  16  colonels,  17  lieutenant-col- 
onels, 20  majors,  15  surgeons,  2  chaplains,  110  cap- 
tains, and  2-13  lieutenants.  Ol  (lie  3J  general  offi- 
cers from  that  State,  10  only  have  escaped  wounds. 
Of  all  the  living  graduates  of  Harvard  (the  uni- 
versity of  highest  repute  in  America),  one-fifth,  <>r. 
to  be  as  accurate  as  possible,  nineteen  and  some 
fraction  per  cent.,  have  served  with  the  army.  At 
Yale  College  the  percentage  has  been  even  higher. 
Conceive  a  struggle  which  should  bring  one  in 
every  five  of  men  who  have  taken  degrees  at  Ox- 
ford ancl  Cambridge  under  fire,  and  which  should 
call  on  us,  besides  our  regular  army,  to  keep  on  foot 


is  large  as  'nir  \ 
i  pkdn  fact-:  an 


-  will,  T  r 


among  us  al  this  i"ule  tide,  l*(i..-lhat  New  En- 
gland has  not  spared  of  her  1>  -t  blond  in  tin?  great 
day  of  tin.  Lord,  under  the  burden  anil  heat  ol'  whirh 
the  whole  North  has  reeled  and  daggered  indeed, 
but  without  ever  bating  hearl  or  hope,  and  aluav. 
gaining  fresh  power,  through  three  year-  ol  war 
which  have  seemed— nav.  which  have  been— a  lite- 
time.  In  such  crises  time  is  not  measured  l>v  year- 
ordayB.  The  America  which  looked  on,  paralegal 
;,.!>!  ,1,, id  it  t'n!,  wliPu.h  ihli  i'r.-vwn  pnipiif-ied  Jill  !|te-i- 
tliing-  en  liis  way  to  tlie  sealfold,  ki-nng  a  negro 
child  as  he  pa-^'d  nhsm,  while  Stonewall  Jack, mi 
and  his  pupil-  giiank.d  ihe  gibbet— -flie  America  of 
State  sovereignty  and  fv-d  Seott  law.  in  which  the 
Co.-pel  news  meant  avowedly  "flood  will  to  /:■/</./•■ 
men,"  and  abolitionism  wa--  loathed  as  a  vulvar  ami 
mi-rldevous  fanatici-m— is.  as  far  heiiind  as  to-da\ 
for  all  practical  purposes  as  the  England  of  the 
Stuarts,  or  the  France  of  the  Regency.      What  this 


rsi,.   smile-  r>r  provoke  eriiiei-m  among  u 
wliicli    (good   as    they    are   in   their  right 

I  prefer  at  parting  to  endeavor  lnpi.it  my 
-viop.ilhy  with  the  spirit,  the  hear' 


Harvard  University. 

vard,  in  July,  1865,  must  indeed  have  stumped  it- 
self indelibly  on  the  memories  of  all  those  sons  of 
(■<■  ■ir-.f  ii|  .\rnerie-JM  uiii \'er-iiie--.  wlio  were  present 
at  the  gathering.  To  me,  I  own,  even  the  meagre 
reports  rne  got  over  here  in  the  American  papers 
were  ur  apeak  ably  touching.  The  irrepressible  joy 
of  a  people  delivered,  after  years  of  stern  work  and 
patient  waiting,  from  an  awful  burden,  almost  too 
heavy  for  mortal  shoulders  to  bear,  temp-red,  a:  it 
was  by  the  tenderest  sympathy  for  the  ! ..o,,ilies  of 
;-|!'  ■-'!■  ii,  and  a  Bolemi]  turning  to  give  glory  and 
t  God  who  giveth  vic- 


Commemoration  Ode,  by  the  best-known  member 
of  the  family,  James  Russell  Lowell,  author  of  the 
"lliglow  Papers:" 


inendous 
but  a  light 

their  heavenB,  let  us  seize  this  precious  moment^ 
never  to  recur  again  in  their  or  our  history,  and, 
by  graceful  and  loyal  word  and  deed,  show  them 
that  we  honor,  aa  it  deserves,  the  work  they  have 
done  for  the  world  since  the  election  of  I860,  and 
can  sympathize  with  their  high  hope..  i.„-  iln-  future 
<■>!'   their   Oiiilment   with    no  jenloie.\    or   dMni-.f,   .■>... 


STAPLEFORD  GRANGE. 


was  related  to  mo  by  the  chief  actress  in  it,  Cissy 

Mi|.-s— n  preHr,  lady    like  girl  of  I  weni  v,  i  lie  daiedi- 

ter  of  the  rector  of  the  parish  in  which  Staplefbrd 
Grange  is  situated: 

It  was  the  Saturday  afternoon  before  Christmas- 
day,  nearly  two  years  ago,  when  my  six  brothers, 

all  younger  than  myself,  and  I  were  skating  on  our 
squire's  fish-pond.     Wo  had  been  skating  since  din- 


■,  and  it  was  not  till  the  \ 

i  that  I  had  entirely  forgotten  I 


o  walk  to  tho  Grnnire,  a  big 
.k  some  geese  for  dinner  on 
New-Year's  Day.  My  mother  had  said,  decidedly, 
"Those  geese  must  be  ordered  to-day,  Cissy,"  so  1 
knew  that  I  should  have  to  go  r  al  though  I  lie  Orange 


m-ment  or  I  wo  wondering,  wlide-Charlie  i/elli 
patient  al  Mrs  John-mi '^  non-appearance,  ki 
a:Vu,  at  the  door.      Suddenly  some  marks  er, 


'  What  can  it  be,  Charlie?"  I  said,  in  a  whisper. 
I  don't  know,"  rharlie  relunud,  Ihoughtlully  , 
oor  .lip  come  to  grief,  perhaps.      It's  odd  Mrs, 


"No,  let  me  go  too,"  I  said,  hazily,  half  fright- 
"  Well,  don't  make  a  row  then  ;"and  wo  'entered 


oor.     A  hundlo 

,    Willi   dip   lying    a'-leep   he- 


ide  it.  in  a    ven    .--trange  a 

1   shall    never  lurgel    (he    I 
lent        Ihuldl.-d    ,1,1,    eviden 


"  Hush!  "whispered  Charlie,  sternly,  taking  hoi, I 
of  my  bunds,  and  forcibly  dragging  me  on  to  my 

home,  Cissy,  as  hard  as  over  you  can.     Come  I" 
Ho  dragged  mo  to  tho  door,  and  then  I  turned 

sick  all  over,  and  tumbled  down  again.     I  felt  ae  if 

1  t-oti/tl  not  stir  auothor  step. 
"It's  no   une,   Charlie,   I   can't   Btir,"    I  said. 


Try  8 


'  Charlie  said,  bitterly  and  pu-.ion. 


wouldn't  murder  if  lliey  could  help  it,  and  Johnson 
will  he  back  directly.' 

"  Yes,  yes.     Go,"  1  said,  understanding  that  lio 
wanted  to  (old)  help  before  the  limner  came.      "  I 


I  combated  the  faint  feeling  width  Charlie  eouhl 
not  understand  by  pinching  my  arms  and  sticking 
pins  into  them,  and  after  a  littles  judicious  torture 
of  this  sort,  the  Bick  feeling  went  off,  and  I  could 
think  again.    "  I  will  take  off  my  boots,"  I  thought, 

"  *     already  a  glimmering  plan 


I  daren't  go  by  myself,' 
c  tone;  "it  would  be  quiti 

Tdll  the  truth,  Cis,"  called  out  Charlie,  a  quick, 
good-natured  boy  of  fifteen,  "  and  say  you're  afraid 
of  Jip.     Never     ""* 


tliroic.h  i:h. 
joined    ihe 


all  my  brothers,  I  was  a  pretty  good 
,e  sped  across  the  squire's  fields,  and 
arrow  lane  toward  the  Grange,  as  fast 
When  we  got  to  the  last  field,  which 
rm-yard,  we  slackened  pace  a  little, 
got  into  the  big  court-yard  if-adf  we 
were  walking  almost  slowly. 

"How  dreadfully  lonely  it  looks,  Charlie!"  I 
said,  almost  with  a  shiver  at  the  desolate  aspect  of 
the  place,  which  had  been  a  grand  gentleman'; 
house  "forty  years  ago,  but  bad  been  suffered  to  fall 
almost  into  ruins.  "  I  am  glad  I'm  not  Mrs.  Johrr- 
Bon,  particularly  as  she  has  no  children,  nor  an 


t  Mr.  i 


such  a  time,  Cie,  do  j 
good-humoredly. 
Jipdid  not  greet  us- 


;  you  stop  and  prose  t 


nd  healeth  wounded 
lis  people  as  the  shad 
and^the  mingle*1  cry  of 


dow  of  a  great  rock  in  a  I       ' 

7  of  triumph,  and  agony,       nev 


j  kennel,  which  stood  exactly  oppn-ne  in  a 


win  ,  "  I  thought  they  j 
1  walked  forward  a  few  I 


iously,  i 

o!     What's 

tone  made  me  turn  sick  again.    Had  C 
help  already?     No.      The  three  men  ■ 


incut's  silence  that  followed  the  man's  exclan 

to  Stop  the  hard,  quick  thumping  of  my  heart, 
1  felt  certain  they  must  hear,  and  then,  as  it 
nated,  I  raised  my  head  from  my  knees  — f 


saw  a  hairy,  fierce-looking 
face  glaring  in  at  (be  entrance  ol  my  hiding-place. 
I  tried  hard  not  to  scream,  and  I  succeeded;  but  in 
another  moment  I  should  have  fainted  if  the  face 
had  not  been  taken  away.  To  my  utter  amazement, 
a:  the  face  disappeared,  its  owner  said: 

"  I  thought  some  one  might  be  hiding.  That's 
a  lady's  trumpery.     What  can  It  mean?" 

Evidently  I  had  not  been  seen,  thanks  to  my  dark 
dress  and  the  gathering  twilight.    I  breathed  freely 


t  on  angrily.         Why  oKddn  I, 


hey  were,  vi_ 

tc,    they    rami' 

'.  they  began 


eareh   in   ihe  farm-buildings  and  « 
i  owner  of  the  muff. 

I'hev  must  have  gone  away  again.  Go  to 
to,  Hill,  and  see  if  any  body  is  coming  that  wr 
After  a  moment,  Bill  returned  to  the  other  t 
to  were  now  standing  talking  in  low  whisper 
j  back  of  tho  kennel,  and  said : 
'No,  there's  no  one  coming."  And  my  hi 
ik  as  i  thought  how  long  it  would  be  before  : 


1  thai   I  should  liavi 


,    gleinmng   pool   ,,|"  M,„„|     on 


iiiind  the  bare  empty  p.-  in  in  -a-anli  o(  .  h.  It.  r 

There  was  not  a  particle  of  furniture  in  the  roni 
nd  it  wofl  o^iito  empty  except  for  some  apples  i 


I  heard  I  lie  fonh-t.-ps  ,  re  .ing  iln-  hall,  and 
its  they  came  nearer,  w  ilh  Ihe  feeling  of  despei 
I  sped  noiselessly  arrow  Ihe  room,  laid  dow 
behind  the  hampers,  and,  as  the  door  opened,  I 


for  my  head  was  b 
Tliey  walked  to  f'h 


t  would  he  be  in  time? 
a.  lightning  thought, 


,jiiil-.'  mad   iwtli  terror  and    I  right,  for  the  m 
minutes. 

Seven  feet  below  me,  .slretefiing  down  tin 
of  the  hill,  was  the  garden,  now  lying  in  long 
plowed  ridges,  with  the  fro/en  snow  on  I  ho  top  of 
each  of  them,  and  at  the  bottom  of  the  garden  was  a 
stone-wall  four  feet  high.  Beyond  this,  as  far  as 
the  eye  could  reach,  extended  tho  snow-covered 
ileitis.,'  ami  coming  along  the  cart-road  to  the  left  was 


'   open    the    i 


the  window-ledge,  and  the 

jumped  down.     The  high  ; 
uncovered  feot  dreadfully, 


w,  dashed  through  the  brook,  careless  tl 

ip  to  Mr.  Johnson's  side,  I  could  only  thr 
inns  and  shriek  out  "  Murder  1"  just  a 
jort  rang  out  through  the  frosty  air,  an 

I  were  you  hurt  ?"  I  asked,  as  she  pause< 
,  a  little.  Look,  here  is  the  scar;"  and  ! 
le  flowing  fold  of  tarletane  from  her  t 
m.  and  pointed  to  a  white  oval-shaped  sc 
I  Mrs.  Johnson?"  I  asked. 


tow.     Nobody  will  live  there, 
■  Ld      Ifink  lehallnever 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[January  27,  1866. 


Jancary  27,  1S66.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


VKIS  IASHIOSS  IOJS  JAUUABY,  1663.-[See  Paoe  62.] 


[January  27, 


■January  27,  1866.] 


HARPER'S   WEEKLY. 


Holiday  Presents. 

GREAT  SALE  of 

WATCHES,  CHAINS,  DIAMOND  RINGS,  &C. 
One  Million  Dollars'  Worth  ! 

ONE  DOLL  AH  EACH! 

Without  regard  to  value ! !     No't  to  be 

paid  for  until  you  know  what 


2600     "       Syrup  Uup 


1  Enameled  Huuting- 


10^000  Miniature  Locketa 


d?K    SEVING   $c 
3,0     MACHINE.    M 


Superfluous  Hair  Removed 


Allcock's  Porous 
Plasters 


PARLOR 
ORGANS. 


S-T-1860-X. 

Drake's  Plantation  Bitters. 


.h.reiA  AoenlA  No.  loi 


on.i.v  -.[  ot  J,:    ol.yoD  list  for  ONE  DOLLAR. 


value,  and  all  are  offered  at  o 

II 

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NEW  YORK,   SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY  3,  18(iG. 


BIEDS  IN  WINTER. 

The  birds  have  been  called  God's  Messengers 
ever  since  thai  old  and  holy  time  when  the  prophet 
Elijah,  waiting  For  his  evening  meal,  saw  the  broad- 
winged  ravens  painted  black  upon  the  golden  sun- 
set, which  flooded  with  glory  the  brook  Chorith,  by 
which  he  knelt.  Our  Saxon  ancestors  called  thoso 
birds  that  built  about  the  churches  God's  Birds,  and 
held  them  in  as  great  reverence  as  those  which  reared 
their  nests  against  the  temples  erected  by  David  and 
Solomon. 

We  read  of  winters  in  England  go  severe,  even 
witliin  the  Inst  century,  that  nearly  all  the  small 
birds  perished.  There  were  very  few  robins,  wrens, 
linnets,  or  larks  seen  the  following  spring,  and  it 
was  the  end  of  sum  ncr  before  any  young  birds  ap- 
peared. During  those  hard  winters  thousands  of 
birds  were  picked  up  frozen  to  death,  for  all  the 
rivers  wove  ice-bound,  and  it  waB  so  cold  that  the 
oil  was  frozen  in  the  street-lamps,  and  they  could 
not  be  lighted,  so  that  the  towns  were  left  in  dark- 
ness. Freezing  showers  often  fell  during  those 
hard  old  winters,  coating  every  thing  they  touched 
with  clear  bright  ice,  even  the  plumage  of  the 


birds 


the  ( 


if  tiiey  were  under  glass,  and  the  moss  and  lichen 
looked  like  jewels  inclosed  in  crystal  cases.  How 
do  the  small  birds  live  during  our  severe  winters? 
Where  do  they  f.nd  their  food  ? 


/  also  myriads  of  in- 


miIcimUi.!  quantities.     There 

sect-eggs  glued  on  tree,  bush,  or  hedge,  to  folingo 

that  never  falls,  and  these  the  birds  find  out  and  de- 


1  of  stacks,  dwellings,  and 

isible  to  the  sharp  sight  of 
ching  every  bole  and  cram 
a  by  their  claws  and  the  p 


they  fasten  upon  a 


the  pressure  of  their 
light  of  their  almrp, 
ng  to  the  poor  insects 


turned  upon  a  concealed  felon.  In 
farm-yards,  in  places  where  flocks  and  herdB  are 
foddered,  amidst  every  variety  of  foliage  and  herb- 
aye,  the  birds  find  food  that  we  know  nothingaf. 
Watch  some  bird  busy  pecking,  then  kneel  down 
and  examine  the  ground  closely,  and  all  you  find 


.■ill    be   gnt,  s 


i  visible:   what  else  might  be  i 


only  be  discovered  t 


i  is  marvelous.     They  will  drop 
upon  an  insect  from  such  a  height 

1  ri.-ml.T  it  as  inili.-tiin;!  as  agniin 


winter  in  sleep,  during  which  they  require  no  food. 
The  sumo  Frovidenee  which  causes  so  many  created 
things  to  hibernate  during  the  period  they  would 
perish  for  want  of  food  if  awake,  also  provides  rest 
und  sleep  for  tho  birds,  during  which  thoy  feel  no 
hunger,  nnd  renders  tho  few  brief  hours  of  winter 
daylight  long  enough  to  gather  a  sufficiency  of  food 


(,hil-ff;.\1..il..  o!   all  .mr  wtl 


Hoi 


■  ■■lillirir:.  lu.'t'.-le  ;, 


iristmus  carol  was  heard.  His 
beautiful  red  breast  and  the  crimson  holly-borries 
aro  generally  the  only  bits  of  warm  coloring  wo 
see  out  of  doors,  where  nil  tho  landscape  is  whitened 
with  winter.  He  hops  on  tho  window-sill,  leaving 
tho  print  of  his  long  claws  in  Hid"  enow,  while  ho 
peeps  through  tho  pane  with  liin  hold  black  eyes,  ask- 


after  a  few  visits, 


I  kindly.       lie  |. 


inter,  to  watch  their  shy  hahiis,  „ 
erand  nearer  until  they  reach  the  fi 
lb;  then  thoy  open  their  wings  a 
twinkling  of  an  eye!     Throw  up 

,   of  earth    in    the   garden,  and    the 


long  together,  cither  in  upring  or  summer,  oxa 
at  breeding-time,  hut  comes  every  now  and  tin 
as  if  just  to  look  on  and  say  he  has  not  forg.iH.-ii 


wear   the   red    waistcoat-  -I  he 
m'  of  dm  Kubins:   but  they  v 


at  tuo  window.    And  hh  for  the  apurrow,  it  is  never 
absent.     They  aro  tho  plague  of  tho  English  farm- 


shy,  wild  blackbirds  si 


BIRDS   IK  WLNTER-OUT-DOOR  RELIEF. 


HARPEirS  WEEKLY. 


[Tbbrpabt  8,  1866. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 

Satdhdat,  February  8,  18G6. 

UNION. 
TT  is  a  matter  of  sincere  congratulation  that 


('Columbia  shows  t 


Suffrage  in  the  District 

t  the  great  Union  party 

purposes  of  its 


mies  by  fatally  breaking  its  ranks.     There 
an  honest  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the  w 
dom  of  unqualified  suffrage.   The  party  in  Cc 
gress  seems  to  have  been  about  equally  divide 
When,  therefore,  Mr.  Hale  proposed  to  i 
commit  the  bill  with 
mitteo  to  report  certain  qnalifi 
ocrats  hoped  by  joining  the  radicals— to  use  a 
convenient  distinction— against  the  motion,  to 
compel  the  Conservatives  to  vote  against  the 
bill  aa  it  stood;  in  which  case  the  Democrats 
hoped  that  their  vote  united  with  that  of  the 
Conservatives  would  finally  defeat  the  bill. 

Those  fond  hopes  of  a  foolish  faction  were 
utterly  baffled.  The  Conservatives  voted  for 
tho  recommittal.  The  lladieids  and  Democrats 
Hired  upon  tho 


w.ivd    M.lirlh 


:  ipiilicnul    i 


:optiuns,  voted  solidly  wilh  the 
Kudicala  for  it,  and  carried  dismay  to  the  ene- 
mies of  a  sound  and  peaceful  reunion.  When 
tho  Senate  has  passed  upon  the  bill  and  the 
President  has  signed  it,  tho  union  of  the  Union 
pai-iv  is  ill  be  closer  than  ever. 

This  result  just,  at  this  time  is  of  the  highest 
importance,  for  (hero  were  beginning  to  lie  very 
serious  doubts  not  of  tho  intention  but  of  tho 
sagacity  of  tho  Union  purly.  A  few  days  sinco 
n  gentloman  sitting  iu  a  circle  of  persons  un- 
friendly to  tho  Govornmont  read  aloud  Mr. 

sarcastic  comments  by  the  company,  an  ex- 
rebel  officer  said:  "No matter.  Don't  trouble 
yourselves.     Tho  dominant  party  is  going 


ugh,  and  (lien  wn  urn 

oril.  Tho  consequences  of  a  serio 
mr.ng  Union  men  at  this  time  wc 
I'.culubly  disastrous,  and  whoever  1 


iDero 


ent  it,  hastens  a  cula';hopfie  which  fhould  ar 
mil  every  honest  mou  in  the  country.  •  It  would 
it-  infinitely  worse  than  n  mere  party  defeat,  il 
iould  involve  the  honor  and  pcaco  of  (ho  nn- 
ion.  Every  object  for  which  the  Union  party 
s  now  contending  with  whatever  differences 
>f  view  as  to  method,  would  bo  wholly  lost, 
rhe  Union  policy  of  reorganization  would  be 
rornl.dly  repudiated,  and  llic  l'ic-idcut,  whom 
\o  ox-robela  and  their  abettors  now  obsequi- 
ously tlattor,  refusing,  as  he  would  refuse  to 
ubinit  to  their  dictation,  would  bo  coutemptu- 

Why  should  mon  sincerely  devoted  to  tho 
use  reorganization  of  the  Union  and  to  sccur- 
ng  tho  evident  results  of  the  war  tolerate  the 
iicrc  possibility  of  such  a  peril?  Surely  we 
re  all  agreed  upon  certain  substantial,  fundo- 
ueulal  points.     Upon  tho  abstract  definition 


they  urcnottore 

umo  t 

bcir  full  powers  in  [lie 

Union  except  up 

"era  is 

no  difference.     Thus 

. 

stitutional  right  of  so- 
disnvowed ;  chat  tlie 

ionized;  und  that  tile 

o  Licntenant-Gcuem 

msent,  '"j*'  ll'era 

UUBt  » 

ill  be  iiuiiuw'Y  oceupa- 

i  of  those  Stai 

and  that  the  Frcediiicn's  Bureau  mu-t  be 
taincd  to  make  tho  rudical  chungo  of  t 

Me.  And  move  than  this  there  is  no  > 
disagreement  among  Union  men  as  to  tl 
that  tho  Frccdinen,  becoming  by  the  ; 
i  m:. urination  frco  men,  must  cooucr  ui 


tremity  of  party 


i  -iliy  sought  the  overthrow  of  i 


The  late  vote  happily  reveals  the 
among  our  friends  that  tho 
defeat  of  any  particular  method  of  action  can 
not  be  so  hazardous  to  the  country  as  a  party 
schism.  And  however  deeply  the  superior 
wisdom  of  any  particular  policy  may  be  felt, 
and  however  earnestly  defended,  we  are  very" 
sure  that  the  good  sense  which  saved  the  coun- 

epiro  Congressional  action. 


necc.-suriK 


THE  TAX  ON  EDUCATION. 

The  report  of  tho  Commissioners  :i]>o 

terest  by  uU  who  feel  th 
of  gentlemen  so  wisely 
so  fiiiihl'iiJly  devoted 
oua  work,  must  necessarily  have  great  weight 
with  Congress.  We  trust  that  two  facts  will 
not  have  escaped  their  attention  ;  that  English 
publishing  houses  arc  rapidly  establishing  agen- 
cies in  this  country,  and  that  school  committees 
and  teachers  in  nil  parts  of  the  land  are  busily 
dousing  melius  to  avoid  the  expanse  of 
books,  the  prices  of  which 

Cheap  scho  i  -hooks  are  surely  a  cardinal  ne- 
cessity of  the  t  ,;ited  States.  The  one  thing 
that  should  eEca,>a  taxation  is  education.  Wc 
Certainly  do  not  say  that  q/iy  trade  should  be 
favored  at  the  expense  of  any  other,  but  we  do 
ask  whether  taxes  which  materially  lessen  the 
circulation  of  Bchooi-books  do  not  harm  the 
cuunlry  more  than  they  help  it? 

Paper,  which  is  tho  principal  material  of 
books,  after  the  chemicals  used  in  its  mnnufac- 
ure  have  paid  a  heavy  duty,  is  taxed  as  a  whole 
mder  the  Internal  Revenue  act.  The  printing- 
nk  and  ull  tho  materials  used  in  bookbinding 
dso  pay  separate  taxes.  Finally,  the  finished 
jook  is  taxed  as  a  whole.  In  Englioid,  whero, 
is  in  this  country,  foreign  rags,  are  imported 
free,  books,  paper,  etc.,  are  especially  cxempt- 

urcr  is  able  to  pay  his  duties  and  land  books 
n  New  York  or  Boston 


Tho  inevitable   tendency  of 
things  is  to  send  our  book-publishing 
f;luiid,  to  Kli>|i  our  paper-mills, 


hooks  of  ed 
i  wish  that  England  should 
em  for  us  ?     Newspapers  ai 
from  taxation.     But  are  the  spelling-book 

d  geography  less  valuable  ami  essential?    No 
nest  trader  wishes   to  shirk  his  share  of  the 


?    ll'ilie  Corn- 
exempted  from  taxation,  they  will  recom- 
inond  only  that  a  disproportionate  tax  be  re- 
duced ;  while  the  increased  circulation  caused 
reduction  will  partly  compensate  the 
"  e  apparent  loss. 
1st  that  the  Commission  will 
simplify  the  whole  system  of  taxation,  which  is 
now  an  exasperating  snarl  of  perplexities  -  and, 
they  throw  the  cliief  weight  upon  the 
great  luxuries,  will  emancipate  popular  educa- 
from  tho  chains  which  are  forging  for  it 
o  very  moment  in  our  histoiy  when  cheap 
school-books  universally  diffused  are  a  nation- 
'  necessity. 


A  RSTE  ACTIONS. 
We  havo  elsewhere  repeated  what  we  have 
said  more  than  once,  that  the  question  of  the 
present  exact  status  of  the  unorganized  States 
is  practically  unimportant,  or,  as  Mr.  Lincoln 
expressed  it,  it  is  "a  pernicious  abstraction." 
But  Senator  Doolittle  iu  his  speech,  a  few 
days  since,  warmly  denied  that  it  was  unim- 
portant, and  declared  it  to  he  a  vital  question. 

his  riew  of  the  question  and  agreed  to  abide  by 
the  inevitable  consequeuces  of  that  view.     But 

ly  illogical  upon  occasion.  Indeed,  tho  only 
truly  logical  advocates  of  his  theory  are  the 
cx-rohcls  and  Copperheads.      They  assert  that 


arbiliTin    and 
i-ely  illogical, 


Union  or  not  it  can  so  derange  its  relations  to 
the  Union  that  they  can  be  restored  only  as  a 
new  State  is  admitted,  namely,  by  the  consent 
of  the  Government? 

The  Senator  seems  to  forget  that  the  war  is 
not  over  because  the  rebels  have  laid  down  their 

ment  declares  it  is  ended.  Every  thing  that 
the  President  has  authorized  in  the  lately  bel- 
ligerent States  he  has  authorized  as  Command- 
er-in-Chief. The  existing  civil  Governments  in 
all  the  Southern  States  are,  as  Senator  Trum- 
bull truly  says,  merely  tolerated  by  the  Gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States.  Governor  Owt, 
of  South  Carolina,  frankly  recognizes  this  fact. 
The  President  continues  the  suspension  of  the 
writ  of  habeas  corpus  in  those  States.  General 
GnANT  continues  active  military  occupation. 
The  supreme  controlling  authority  in  all  those 
States  is  that  of  the  nation. 

Now  nothing  can  be  plainer  than  the  duty 
of  the  nation  not  to  relax  that  authority  except 
upon  perfectly  satisfactory  terras.  In  the  act- 
ual situation  the  plea  of  State  rights  is  pure 
folly.  State  rights  are  not  to  be  resumed  ex- 
cept upon  conditions  prescribed  by  the  United 
States,  and  the  United  States  are  the  sols 
judges  of  those  conditions.  Suppose  the 
Government  knew  of  a  conspiracy  extending 
throughout  the  late  league  of  rebel  States  to 
rise  in  arms  as  soon  as  the  national  hand  was 
Would  it  be  the  duty  of  the  Gov- 


was  no  present,  armed  rebellion,  and  because 
the  white  inhabitants  declared  that  they  acqui- 
esced in  the  situation?  But  if  the  Govern- 
ment has  the  right  to  impose  any  condition 
whatever  to  satisfy  itself  that  no  rising  could  be 
successful  even  if  attempted,  it  has  the  right  to 
impose  every  condition  necessary  to  the  same 
satisfaction. 

That  is  our  situation  now.     Of  course  the 
choice  of  those  conditions  must  be  sagacious 


asks  whether  wc  would  seriously 
ndertake  to  govern  the  people  of  the  unor- 
ani/.ed^Statos  without  representation.  The 
cnator  must  first  explain  on  what  ground  he 
proposes  a  system  of  State  government,  by 
third  of  the  population  are  to  be  ruled 
entirely  without  representation.  He  is  willing 
to  admit  Senator  Marvin  from  Florida.  But 
he  explain  on  what  ground  he  favors  tlve 
uption  of  power  in  the  Union  by  States 
which  have  a  proportionably  superior  repre- 


However,  the  question  must  be  settled  ac- 
cording to  the  Constitution,  says  some  one. 
Certainly  it  must.  The  war  was  waged  under 
the  Constitution,  and  it  must  he  ended  under 
it.  But  the  Constitution  did  not  prescribe 
the  methods  in  which  the  war  should  he  carried 
on ;  and  it  does  not  specify  the  conditions  upon 
which  its  results  are  to  be  secured. 


THE  FINANCE  BIfcL. 

The  financial  measure  bb-iore  Congress,  which 
contemplates  the  reduction  of  the  currency  by 
funding,  is  of  so  alarming  a  nature  that  it  can  not 
Not  only  have  the 
Meansimplieiilv(iln.'vcd 
the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  , 
they  have  gone  further,  and  invested  that  func- 
tionary with  powers  which  he  never  even  thought 

Government  in  the  world  ever  conferred  upon 

It  was  explained  a  few  weeks  since  in  these 
columns  that  the  aggregate  volume  of  debt  to  be 
funded  or  paid  off  within  the  next  thirty  months 
does  not  vary  much  from  $!, 800,000,000.  Mr. 
M'Cdlloch  in  his  report  asked  for  power  to 
fund  this  debt,  and  seemed  to  intimate  that 
from  one  to  two  hundred  millions  a  year  might 
be  funded.  On  this  the  Committee  of  Ways 
and  Means,  through  the  Morrill  sub-commit- 
tee, prepare  a  bill  which  empowers  the  Secre- 
tary to  sell  United  States  bonds,  bearing  any 
rate  of  interest  not  over  6  per  cent.,  running  for 
any  number  of  years  not  over  forty,  at  any 
price  whatsoever,  at  any  time  or  times,  and  in 
any  amounts  he  chooses;  and  further  permits 
him  to  receive  in  payment  not  only  the  lawful 
current  money  of  the  country,  but  any  of  the 
short  bonds  or  Treasury  notes  which  the  Gov- 

savy  to  say  that,  if  such  a  measure  became  a  law, 
Mr.  M'Culi.och   would  be  created  as  omnipo- 


man  ?    Is  it  fair  to  any  man  to  e: 
uch  temptation? 

:  M'Cclloch  enjoys  tho  perfect  ( 
f  tho  American   people.      For  1 


I'  gold  made  by  Hie  !>op\rt- 
fortunes  for  himself  and  oth- 
ers. Yet  no  rcsponsifle  person,  even  among 
his  bitterest  political  enemies,  has  ever  even 
hinted  that  either  he  or  any  one  else  has  made 
money  by  an  early  knowledge  of  the  intentions 
of  tho  Department  with  regard  to  sales  of  gold. 
The  practice  of  selling  gold  secretly  has  been 
generally  condemned  on  grounds  of  principle. 
But  by  common  consent  all  admit  that  Hugh 
M'Culloch  is  an  honest  man,  and  that  he  will 
not  himself  speculate,  or  permit  others  to  spec- 
ulate, on  what  he  does  as  Finance  Minister  of 

If  it  were  mathematically  certain,  therefore, 
that  the  extraordinary  powers  conferred  on  the 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  by  this  bill  would 
never  be  exercised  by  any  one  but  Mr.  M'Ctjl- 
loch,  the  country  might  view  its  passage  with- 
out much  alarm.  But  what  if  Mr.  M'Cdxloch  • 
resigned,  or  were  removed,  or  died?  Such 
things  have  happened  before.  And  though 
there  is  good  reason  to  believe  that  Mr.  John- 
son would  be  careful  in  selecting  his  successor, 
it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  we  have  had, 
heretofore,  Secretaries  of  the  Treasury  and  oth- 
er Cabinet  Ministers  who  were  also  carefully 
selected  and  yet  who  proved  to  be  not  above 
suspicion.  Howell  Cobb  was  Secretary  of 
the  Treasury,  and,  as  we  all  thought,  a  most 
respectable  man;  yet  he  did  his  best  to  ruin 
the  public  credit.  Thomas,  of  Maryland,  a  most 
respectable  man,  was  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
and  equally  unfaithful  to  his  trust.  The  post  of 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  has  generally  been 
filled  by  an  able  and  an  honest  man;  but  how 
would  the  public  view  the  placing  of  such  enor- 
mous and  irresponsible  power  in  the  hands  of 
such  persons  as  the  late  Thomas  Corwin  or 
Robert  J.  Walker  —  both  of  them  in  their 
time  Secretaries  of  the  Treasury  ?  How  if  such 
men  as  Jacob  Thompson  or  John  B.  Floyd— 
both  of  them  United  States  Cabinet  Ministers 
in  their  day — chanced  to  be  appointed  to  the 
Trea-uiy  Department? 

The  war  is  over,  and  the  necessity  for  dicta- 
torships may  fairly  be  assumed  to  have  passed 
away.  It  is  about  time  not  only  that  all  pub- 
lic officials  should  scrupulously  avoid  assum- 
ing needless  responsibility,  but  that  Congress 
should,  as  heretofore,  hedge  its  grants  of  pow- 
er with  proper  restrictions  and  limitations.  A 
curtailment  of  the  currency  being  deemed  req- 
uisite, the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  prop- 
erly be  invested  with  the  power  of  selling  bonds 
to  retire  short  securities  or  legal  tenders.  But 
the  amount  to  be  sold,  the  kind  of  money  to  be 
received  in  payment,  the  periods  at  which  such 
sales  may  take  place,  the  price  at  which  the 


interest  payable  on  the  bonds,  should  all  be 
fixed  beforehand  and  openly  by  Congress,  and 
not  left  to  be  determined  privately  by  an  ex- 
ecutive officer.  The  public  have  a  right  to 
know  what  is  going  to  be  done  in  the  vital 
matter  of  the  currency. 

There  are  two  .other  points — we  pass  over 
the  objections  raised  to  the  issue  of  Sterling 
Bonds -as  trifling  and  immaterial— upon  which 
exception  may  fairly  be  taken  to  the  financial 
measure  now  before  Congress. 

The  first  of  these  is  the  repeal  of  the  section 
of  the  old  law  which  establishes  a  Sinking  Fund. 
That  section  had  been  flagrantly  disobeyed  by 
Mr.  Chase,  and  has  been  disobeyed  by  his  suc- 
cessor. Finding  it  a  dead  letter  Congress  re- 
peals it.  This  is  repudiation.  Men  of  means 
abroad  and  at  home  subscribed  for  our  bonds 
on  the  faith  that  a  sinking  fund  would  be  es- 
tablished which  would  gradually  pay  them  off. 
Congress  has  no  more  right  to  abolish  the 
Sinking  Fund  than  it  has  to  alter  the  rate  of 


ng  Fund  1 


Lyable.     The  Sink- 
United  States  and 


■  e-taUi--!icd  by  the  ITniii-d  ,Sn.ues,  and 
iish  it  now  is  to  break  faith  with  the  pub- 
litor,  and  to  enter  upon  the  broad  high- 


Febbpart  3, 1866.] 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


67 


:his  also  will  be  repudiation.     When  | 

-nmeutput  forth  the  compound-intcr- 
,K-  >■:  veu-Thirty  note?,  and  the  debt 
is,  it  covenanted  to  pay  to  the  holder 


day  1 


pay: 


j,-  government,  belore  tne  ma 
Seven -Thirty  notes  and  comp 
notes,  so  contrives  to  reduce  the 
legal  tenders  that  all  its  taxes  a 
tl  ,u.,i-lKink  notes,  it  will  have 
p-, vine  the  currency  intcie-d  Hue  on  its  securi- 
ties in  any  other  medium  than  in  uational- 
h ,nl\:  i^otes,  which  may,  and  probably  will,  at 
tin'  rim^  be  worth  much  lc<s  than  legal  tender 
money.  Sound  banking  authority  predicts  th.it, 
if  s.jnn, 000,000  of  our  legal  lender  currency 
be  withdrawn  from  circulation,  the  remainder 
will  be  worth  from  2  to  5  per  cent,  more  than 
national-banknotes.  In  such  an  event,  to  pay 
tlj  interest  on  the  Seven-Thirty  notes,  com- 
pound notes,  and  debt  certificates  in  a  currency 
worth  considerably  less  than  the  money  in 
which  Government  agreed  to  pay  when  it  bor- 
rowed the  money  of  its  creditors,  will  be  a  very 
Bhabby  form  of  repudiation. 

It  is  not  very  likely  that  the  Committee  of 
Ways  and  Means  or  Congress  will  pay  much 
attention  to  the  warnings  of  the  press.  Sine, 
party  discipline  appears  to  have  quenched  in- 
dividual freedom  of  opinion,  and  there  is  bo 
little  financial  ability  in  Congress  that  both  the 
committee  and  the  body  of  which  it  forms  a 
part  are  generally  content  to  obey  the  orders  of 
the  Treasury  Department.  Were  it  otherwise, 
some  effort  might  be  made  to  induce  Congress 
to  let  the  .currency  alone  for  the  present,  and  1 
take  advantage  of  the  large  revenues  of  Go' 
ernment  to  reduce  the  public  debt  by  selling 
the  surplus  gold  in  the  Treasury,  and  by  paying 
off  each  short  date  obligation  as  it 
Tiii.-  would  be  the  way  to  diminish  our  burdens 
without  producing  a  commercial  crisis,  and 
the  end,  it  would  probably  prove  as  efflcacic 
as  Mr.  Morkill's  method  for  bringing  doi 


This  state  of  feeling  conld  easily  be  changed 
by  adopting  the  policy  in  nse  on  all  the  English 
lines,  of  discriminating  in  favor  of  commuters 
owning  cr  occupying  houses  along  the  line, 
which  can  be  done  with  equal  advantage  to 
bi.-iU  stockhril.kTs  ami  the  public. 

The  London  and  North  Western  Railway 
adopted  in  1862,  and  have  since  continued  the 
following  mileage  scale  of  rates  for  season  tick- 
ets for  one  year  for  ordinary  commuters  who 
use  first-class  carriages,  although  authorized 
by  Parliament  to  charge  threepence  per  mile. 
Certain  resident  commuters  pay  half  these  rates. 
From  one  to  five  miles,  inclusive,  £7  10s.  per 
l,  or  say  §3G  gold.  For  each  additional 
mile  up  to  fifteen  £1  per  mile,  or  say  $85  for 
i  miles.  For  each  additional  mile  above 
i  16s.,  or  say  for  forty-eight  miles  $213. 
This  distance,  forty-eight  miles,  is  the  greatest 
the  Harlem  road  for  which  commutation  " 
allowed.  The  Harlem  road  charges  for  coi 
mutation  toCroton  Falls  (forty-eight  and  a  hii 
miles)  $312  per  annum.  Tho  rate  betwe 
White  Plains  and  Croton  Falls  is  in  very  nearly 
the  same  proportion.  Tickets,  one  hundred  at 
a  time,  are  issued,  the  use  of  which  may  be 
deferred  for  any  period  within  four  months. 

The  English  rates  are  reduced  50  per  cent, 
in  perpetuity  in  favor  of  owners  of  house: 
erected  within  certain  limits  and  of  a  certair 
value,  and  are  continued  to  any  successor  oi 
other  occupant.  Students  or  apprentices  liv- 
ing with  their  parents  at  any  of  these  suburban 
residences  pay  also  one-half  the  established 
rates.  The  Great  Western  line  has  edoptec 
Yery  nearly  the  rates  specified  above.  Othet 
lines  charge  much  less.  For  instance,  tht 
Chester  and  Holyhead  Railway  has  established 
the  following  rates  per  annum :  for  seven  miles 
£7,  for  fifteen  £15,  for  fifty 


plication,  or  oven  enjoyment,  whatever.  He 
adds,  that  tho  trade  in  New  York,  Brooklyn, 
lie  neighborhood,  have  gtvon  only  nino 
for  n  day's  work  sinco  Novembor  10, 
and  that  no  more  has  been  required. 
This  was  undoubtedly  in  pursuance  of  tho  law 
/o  mentioned  in  the  "  Saturday  Senium" 
.«   uulural    limitation   of  effective    labor. 


a  law  can  make  eight  hours'  good  labor  worth 
the  wages  of  ton  hours'  good  labor.  If  it  can 
not,  the  inovitablo  effect  of  tho  law  would  bo 
to  drive  capital  where  it  could  get  tho  boat  re- 
turn fur  investment. 

J.  T.  thinks  that  if  the  Legislature  will  pass 
tho  eight-hours'  law  "they  will  chock  tho  self- 
ishness of  both  labor  nnd  capital."  But  how? 
Can  you  compel  capital  in  a  particular  direc- 
tion ?  If  yon  try  it  you  will  morely  paralyze 
both  capital  and  labor.  Suppose  tho  Legisla- 
ture of  New  York  wore  to  pass  a  law  that  uo- 
bodf  Bhould  work  moro  than  fivo  hours  a  day, 
nor  be  worth  more  than  twonty  thousand  dol- 
lars. Might  they  not.  just,  as  wi.-oly  nnd  suc- 
cessfully onact  that  every  body  should  bo  com- 
fortablo  and  happy?  There  are  some  things 
that  laws  can  not  effect,  and  laws  about  labor 

1  facts  and  conditions  of  labor.    Thus 

S  in  the  work  of  computation  for 

t  hours  n  day 

ven    loutish 


;  ■      '       ■  .  ir.'(--U[.]i  i,t."l 


■  a,(l,.vni.  Sh.-.,.  l.l. 


The  extravagance  of  the 


tion  is  considered. 

Plains  there  is  bu 

York,  which  is  tr, 

going  daily  to  the  city  can  h 

there  are  but  two  afternoon 

in  the  whole  each  way  per  day. 

very,  very 


It  seems  to  us  that  tho  friends  of  the  eight- 

ur  movement  aro  of  opinion  that  it  nerds 

for  sixty  £30,  ]  only  an  act  of  the  Legislature  to  secure  eight. 

hours' work,  eight,  hon  rs'  sleep,  and  eight  hums' 

recreation.     J.  T-,  however,  while  apparently 

urging  this  kind  of  legislation,  expressos  his 

opinion  that  "it  is  too  much  to  expect  that 

our  social  evils  can  bo  romoved  by  legislative 

acts."     What  arguments,  then,  nnd  to  what 

the  Legislature  ? 


COMMUTATION 

The  principle  of 
■;hat  a  low  rate  of  fares  to  permanent  residents 
ilong  the  line  of  a  railroad  stimulates  settle- 


It  supposes  that  the  growth  of  such  a  population 

■ni;t\-    ;>■-    once. mo.-,.? J    wit.]-,    rutvrnna.y.e,    :u-d    i!i.i 

there  5=  no  maximum  attainable  too  great  for 
the  solid  advantage  of  the  road.  The  policy 
applies  whenever  a  crowded  city  is  located  at 
either  terminus  capable  of  throwing  out  a  large 

.i,l,!Vr..:tn    p(ij>ul-.i  ti"ii.        til    i-.ii._d  Hid   ;dl    tin-   im  ■ 

merous  railroads  leading  out  of  London  and 
other  principal  cities  have  practiced  it  from  the 
outset  with  entire  confidence  in  its  being  a 
vl.munei\ative  system.  The  two  great  lines 
lending  northward  from  New  York  (the  Hud- 
son River  and  Harlem  roads)  pursued  the  pol- 
icy until  they  both  passed  into  the  hands  of 
their  present  owners,  who  manage  them  so  as 
to  discourage  further  settlements,  greatly  to 
the  injury  of  those  doing  business  in  the  city 
who  were  induced  by  moderate  fares  to  estab- 
lish homes  in  the  country.  Rates  to  commut- 
ers who  nse  the  road  daily  were  increased  la... 
season  in  some  instances  over  three  hundred 
per  cent.  A  step  so  decisive  warrants  the  con- 
clusion that  the  policy  of  commutation  is  re- 
garded by  the  proprietors  with  disfavor,  and 
that  turriier  encouragement  to  settlements 
not  be  afforded  except 


r  and  ditferent  \ 


good  for 


roads.     We 


sixty-five  days,  while  here  they 

only  the  week  days  of  the  year. 

there  is  not  restricted  in  the  number  of  times 

he  nay  travel  back  and  forth,  but  here  he  must 

•  ay  fcr  more  than  one  journey  each  way  per 

day.     Abroad,  a  general  ticket  is  issued  which 

is  exhibited  only  when  called  for,  * 


i  ticket 


But  the  important  difference  between  the 
two  systems  is  the  assurance  of  a  permanent 
policy  in  the  English  roads  looking  to  the  sub- 
stantial interests  of  those  who  erect  improve- 
ments along  their  lines,  tending  strongly  to 
mutual  benefit  and  the  entire  failure  of  the 
managers  of  these  two  roads  to  exhibit  any  such 
policy.  This  may  be  due  to  the  fact  that  these 
lines  have  recently  come  into  the  hands  of  those 
who,  although  of  great  experience  in  other  af- 
fairs, are  without  experience  on 
and  hence  they  have  adopted  a  ra 


ubject, 


THE  EIGHT-HOUR  SYSTEM. 


ONE  QUESTION  SETTLED. 

One  of  the  perplexing  questions  has  been 
virtually  settled.  Tho  petition  of  tho  earliest 
veterans  of  the  war  who  enlisted  from  the  no- 
blest impulses,  and  who  after  long  service  have 
been  discharged,  often  from  illnoss  and  wounds, 
for  bounties  in  proportion  to  that  paid  the  later 
enlisted  troops,  was  so  plaiuly  natural  that  it 
could  not  well  be  set  aside. 

But  the  Paymaster-General  reports  that  it 
would  take  $r..>0,000,000  to  equalize  the  boun- 
ties. In  view  of  such  a  sum  and  the  presont 
condition  of  the  finances,  do  tho  patriotic  peti- 
tioners themselves  press  their  honorable  claim  ? 
Some  kind  of  provision  might  be  possible,  hut 
who  would  advocate  such  an  addition  t" 
burden  of  the  country? 

We  must  bo  just  before  we  are  generous, 
and  the  necessity  of  absolute  economy  i 
perative.  It  is  not  only  the  duty  of  tho  r 
but  of  individuals.  It  would  be  a  fit  cro 
the  conduct  of  the  people  during  the  war  if 
they  universally  and  individually  economized 
to  help  pay  the  debt  as  they  nobly  supported 
its  iieeessary  creation. 


nil  In tmiirul  |ulj  r    nl  I 

mot'clri'tm-ri  l.-r  miy  <- 


;,',....;".„'.; 


i ■  a, 'I'll. -i.  i. ii  a.i  .  ..i  c ■■■,■  I 

.....  ,\w.vImh.i  lii  force  Id  sold  Dl 

■  r..vi  -i.ni .  ,,i  flu  i  A.;,  mo  ln.:ivl.v 


rlu,  of  Florida,  wlticii  »<a.>  ur.l.-u- 

!':Mli!.,iHm,v.-r pi'lul.-.i  ki 


FIFTH  AVENUE  SKATING 

Now  that  the  skating 

in  remi 

i\hiju]'OAT.M,\M'.- 


The  subject  is  one  of  sufficient  importance 
to  justify  public  discussion,  and  particularly  as 
the  true  interests  of  the  roads  and  of  the  large 
number  of  property  owners  along  their  lines 
concur  in  the  esra.i.i.-.ii.u-uc  of  rates  such  us 
commuters  can  afford  to  pay,  and  such  as 
uiJlenci.iurage  improvements.  The  p<u. illation 
along  both  lines  is  yet  sparse  compared  with 
that  along  the  English  roads,  but  may  be  in- 
creased by  a  wise  and  permanent  policy  to  an 
extent  certain  to  reward  the  stockholder*  with 
ain|)i(-  revenues.  The  :>olky  which  ex. id.,  the 
largest  possible  compensation  from  each  com- 
muter treats  the  present  population  as  having 
att-;.iiuci.l  ;.t'.  maxim  nu,  and  strips  them  of  all 
means  to  influence  others  to  build  up  adjacent 
homes.  These  resident-,  in-.ead  of  beinf  *ve 
earnest  and  constant  friends  of  the  roau,  as 
they  were  at  the  outset  for  mutual  advantage, 
are  forced  to  make  the  complaints  which  pre- 
vent addition. tl  settlements.  On  both  lines 
the  great  body  of  commuters,  living  at  .points 
not  niriuijiiced  by  a.  n.e  cumpcution,  are  much 
dissatisfied,  and  could  not  be  relied  upon  for 
any  friendly  service  to  either  company.  In 
the  matter  of  taxation,  trials  beforelhose  not 
mlh.eiieed  by  free  rickets,  coroners' juries,  the 
siiih.i.  riey  of  fences,  and  applications  to  the 
LLV  =  Utuie,  these  road.,  will  vunstantlvAe  met 
by  opposition  from  tl 
gard  the  late  sudden  i 
unjustifiable. 


J.  T.,  who  is  sanguine  oi 
eight-hour  system,  is  aggrieved  by 
that  the  British  laborer  drudges  fourteen  hours 
a  day  for  a  pittance,  and  would  deny  the  truth 

the 


Hi:    thinks    v. 
day.      liut  : 


have  asserted  it  merely 

law  of  supply  and  dot 

should  have  said  ten  1 

drudging  for  ten  hours  a  day  gives  only  a  pit 

tancc  to  the  British  laborer,  what  would  drudg 

ing  eight  hours  give  him  ?    That  we  did  no 

misrepresent  the  substantial  fact  of  the  condi 

tion  of  the  British  laborer  we  are  persuaded  bj 

..what  Mr.  Bbight  «d  in  his  late  speech  a 

Birmingham. 

,     "Have  yon  read,;'  6ays  Mr.  Bbioht,  "i 

paragraph  which  lateiy  appeared  in  the  news 

papers  about  J.  Ckoss,  a  Dorsetshire  lahore.' 


He  worked  six  days  i 


ihis employer,  in i  wl 
l.c  worked  '^i  years  at  the  rato  of  8s.  per  w. 

I  tell  you  that  many  thousands  of  c 

like  thatof.louN  Cross  aro  to  bo  found  throi 
out  the  country,  and  especially  in  the  ho 
and  that  their  condition  is  such  that  luth 

to  solve  the  mystery  as  to  how  they  keep  I 
and  .-.oul  together."     It  is  truly,  as  he  call 


Doe,  J.  T. 


Jn,,N(    I, 


DOMESTIC   INTELLIGENCE.  Z'^X-'"- •i'-^ 


FOREIGN  NEWS. 


'■    o.'-ur 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Febbpary  3, 1866. 


OLD  FOLKS  AT    HOME  AND  YOUNG  FOLKS 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


INSIDE. 

A  CHRONICLE  OF  SECESSION. 


,  Mrs.  Sorel  ;  glad  to  see  you  ;  don't  take  that 
air,  tliis  hero  is  an  easier  one;  take  oil'  your 
nnet ;  come  to  spend  the  day,  I  do  hope ;  how 

There  was  nothing  specially  wonderful  in  the 
:ly,  at  least  to  look  at.  You  could  see  that  she 
ist  have  been  beautiful  in  her  youth  ;  the  clear 
ay  eye,  regular  features,  and  still  graceful 
■m,  showed  that  plainly  enough.     Yet,  being 


lio  simple  entrance.    The 


interruption  caused  b 
abashed  and  confuse 


nelon  patcli  than  the  master  ■ 

\nd  Mrs.  Juggins,  too,  seemed  endeavoring  to 

lide  something  beneath  the  br   " 


]inuy  with  quieter 
Juggins.  It  was 
conversation  was  r 

and  probably 


tell  her  neighbor 
economy  of  her  h 

alum  hiul  improved  the  candles  s 


rich  she  had  brought 
>m  wheat  bran. 

3  good 


;r  bought 
Yankee  made,-  remarked  Mrs. 
mined  iUe  article  carefully. 


"But  I  must 
making  shoes,"  interrupted 


hey  just  stay  sit  home  imd- 


w  she.  h;ul  found  nut.  that  - 
gelv  diluted,  answered  just 
"  Yes,  and  ink  went   right  i 


Much  more  did  Mrs.  Sorel  have  to  tell  her 
neighbor,  talking  rapidly  and  in  her  most  cheer- 
ful manner.     Not,  if  she  could  help  it,  should 

"By-the-by,  when  did  you  hear  from  Frank 
last?"  asked  the  Colonel,  suddenly,  in  the  midst 
of  a  description  his  wife  was  giving  Mrs.  Sorel 
of  a  loom  she  was  having  made. 

Colonel  Juggins  had  no  such 
Ins  Midden  question  ruined  everv  thine, 
"11  too,  y 


■  i."  heing  on, pie  ■"■'!■"">  u-m,  m  iKT 
-  v.lueU  enih--'l'^'l  the  preacher.  Ur, 
there  v  -■  'i  sense— struggle  against  it  us 

Jt"  this   latter    iudmdiuil    ulu.h    he   ,,,,,1,1 


his  denunciations  of  th< 
there  was  under  it  all  t' 
l  wrong  which  the  prca< 
to  save  his  life.     Howe 


quench— it 

him  mi   aue 

•■I  would 


and  surprised  look  .at 

such  a  question?     You 

"Then  1  would  ask, 


asked  the  preacher. 
said  Mrs.  Sorel,  with 


hen   I   would  ifk,   ma'am,  why  von  do  nut 

faith  in  God  to  leave  your  son  "in "his  hands  ? 

"       <t  griove  over  your  son,  as  I  mn 

Thousands  of  us— Sister  Juggins 


have  been  as  well  not  to  have  asked  the  question 
But  it  was  too  late.      Even  Mrs.  Juggins  saw 
that  they  were,  as  she  afterward  expressed  it, 
"in  for  it  now." 
' '  Not  for  several  weeks,  Colonel, "  replied  Mrs. 

"Your  son  is  in  Virginia,  I  believe,  ma'am?" 
said  the  preacher,  in  his  usual  tone  at  the  be- 
ginning  of  a  sermon.  Brother  Barker  always 
began  his  sermon  in  a  low  and  scarcely  audible 
voice :  he  got  loud  enough,  however,  long  before 


e   a  look  at  that  three-year-old  I  told  you 

nit;  you  circuit  riders  know  a  good  animal 
en  you  see  it  if  any  body  does  :  takes  a  Method- 
preacher  to  judge  horse-flesh  !  " 
'In  a  moment,  Brother  Juggins,"  said  the 
preacher,  who  was  not  to  be  interrupted  in  that 


visitor,  who  had  herself 
regard  to  the  weather, 
section  of  which  we  are  speaking, 
all  over  the  world  besides,  form 
e  invariable  introduction  to  conversation. 
It  is  strange ;  yet  if  ever  countenances  ex- 
essed  the  sense  of  being  caught  at  something 


i". .to. I  expressed  t 


ii":  t.j  manifest.     Of  all  of  them 
had  the  deepest,  strongest  sense  c 

more  than  the  others,  being  i 


Meanwhile,  if  any  one  could  have  known 
i  her  composed  and  natural  manner  or  not, 
■■!'  I  w;|.  saying  to  herself,  as  she  took  out 
wing — "Dear  me,  I  wish  I  had  known; 
t  help  it!" 


n-  u'-.uv  to  ;iv..i.l  that  theme  also.  The  gen- 
tlemen had  from  her  entrance  ceased 
tion ;  the  preacher  apparently  engaged  in  read- 
'iie,  the  At/co<-a(e—the  religious  paper  of  the 
Church  to  which  Colonel  Juggins  and  himself 
belonged— and  the  Colonel  engaged  in  smoking 
his  cob  pipe  and  solemnly  thinking  over  Port 
Donelson  and  Nashville. 

Now  there  was  no  better  soul  in  the  world 
than  Mrs.  Juggins,  but  conversation  formed  no 
:  excellences,  so  that  it  devolved  upon 
i  say  something  or  to  sit  in 
"      t  the  same  time, 


.  Sorel  either  t 


dozens    of  different 


9 friends.     No  knigli! 

did  this  man  into  any  theological  controversy, 
whenever  and  wherever  the  lists  were  opened. 
But  controversy  upon  the  well-worn  themes  of 
Church  Government,  Election,  Baptism,  and  the 
like,  had  ceased  entirely,  had  utterly  passed  from 
the  minds  of  men.  The  one  great  contrnversy 
of  the  day,  raging  not  only  upon  battle-field  but 
in  every  village,  in  every  knot  of  talkers,  in  ev- 
ery separate  heart  and  mind,  this  controversy 
had  swallowed  up  every  other.  To  it  men  gave 
had  hitherto  squandered  in 
tainly  with 


"You  are  perfectly  aware,  Mr.  Barker,  that 
Frank's  course  does  not  give  me  satisfaction," 
said  .Ur;;.  Sorel,  calmly. 

"Ah,  is  it  so?"  said  the  preacher,  raising  his 
brows  in  wonder.  Like  every  man  who  stakes 
every  thing  on  a  cause,  falsehood  favorable  to 
that,  cause  v.  as  a.  tut  a!  I  v  different  thing  from  the 
old,  abstract,  abominable  falsehood. 

"You  must  pardon  me,  Mr.  Barker,"  said 
Mrs.  Sorel;  "but  I  have  observed  from  the 
outset  that  equivocation,  departure  from  strict 
truth,  has  been  a  leading  feature  of  Secession. 
You  know  perfectly  well  what  my  sentiments  are 
to-day  and  always  have  been.  Frank  wonlcfnot 
have  gone  to  the  war  if  ho  could  have  staid  at 
home.  He  no  more  wanted  to  go  himself  than 
I  wanted  to  send  him.  He  was  taught  to  love 
his  country  from  his  cradle,  and  from  his  earliest 
recollection  he  was  trained  to  regard  Secession 
as  the  greatest  of  crimes." 

"You  must  permit  me,  ma'am,"  began  the 
preacher. 

"  Only  let  me  finish,  if  you  please,"  said  Mrs. 
Sorel,  in  a  manner  as  cool  as  it  was  decided. 
"  At  the  opening  of  the  war  Frank  never  dreamed 
of  enlisting,  at  least  not  under  that  flag,  but  his 
case  became  more  unpleasant  every  day.  Hard- 
ly a  day  but  he  would  say  when  he  came  home, 
'I  hate  the  thirfg  as  much  as  you  do,  mother, 
but  what  can  I  do?'     Not  a  day,  not  an  hour  of 


••And  that  is  just  the  difference  in  my  case," 
said  Mrs.  Sorel,  breaking  quietly  in  upon  the 
preacher.  "I  do  not  grieve  over  Frank  he- 
be  lying  at  this  moment  in  some  crowded  hos- 
pital without  a  mother's  hand  to  tend  him.  No. 
Nor  it  Frank  was  dying  there  of . sonic  disease  or 
some  dreadful  wound,  would  thai  he  what  would 
l"-cak  nn  heart.  Km  all  that  [  could  and  would 
trust  him  in  the  hands  of  the  Lord— it  is  tho 
•r«u,,.  he  is  engaged  in  that  cuts  mo  to  the  soul." 

"Keallv,  Mrs.  Sorel,  ".said  the  preacher,  great- 
ly excited,  "your  views  arc  very  singular,  and 
llicy  may  he  such  as  may  injure  you." 

'•Such  have  always  been  my  views,  Sir,"  said 
[ho  lady,  quietly  and  gravely,' "  and  always  will 
he  If  I  speak  at  all  on  the  subject  I  havo  none 
others  to  express.  And  what  I  now  think  and 
feci  was,  a  year  ago,  the  sentiment  of  every  in- 
dividual in  our  then  happy  land,  with  tho  ex- 
ception of  n  few  desperate  politicians  who  were 
even  then  plotting  our  ruin.  Then  they  were 
regarded  as  had  men  ;  to-day  they  arc  the  rulers 
"I' a  deluded  people." 

If  Mrs.  Sorel  had  only  got  angry  as  she  spoke  I 
But  she  was  so  entirely  calm,  spoke  with  such 

'-'!"  lmrelars  ur  murderers  whoso  guilt  no  one 
could  deny,  that,  in  spile  of  himself,  the  preach- 
er was  confused.  A  mere  politician  would  not 
have  he,,i ;  but  Mr.  Barker,  on  the  other  hand, 

"Were  you  not  bom  at  the  North  ?"  he  asked, 

"Mr.  Barker,"  said  the  lady,  after  a  gvavo 
pause,  "why  do  you  ask  sw' 


an.     Mrs.  Juggins 
"Youareastrar 


t  repeatedly 


ango  sort  of  South  Caroliui.m 
,  with  a  sarcastic  smile. 
said  the  lady,  quietly.      "It 
on,  sensible   planter,  living 


South    Carolina, 

people  had  livec  . , .  „... 

country.     In  the  days  of  Nullification  he 

Union  man— not  without  some  influence— tho 
lain,  sober,  Chr 


-.  I'c-n  pm-mied  and  luaia-   mem    v!  n 
kicked  spoil  which  was  al  one  tunc  eonlinc 


"Audi 


nausea,  upon  Hie  first  syllable  of  the  word.  '"' 

people  they  arc,"  said  Mrs.  Sorel,  with  a  smile 
"Only  last  week  Mrs.  Juggins  was  telling  me 
that    marriage    has    been   altogether   abolished 

"Lnw  me,  yes I"  broke  in  Mrs.  Juggins;  "so 
I'm  told.     Up  there  tho  women  till  wear  pants 
like  men,  make  speeches,  vo'"    — •'    r 
carry   their   revolvers, 


d 

and  lake 


I'  vamhle,    just    hl.e    tl„-    niea!     '\X\l\ 


i' to  each  other  they  just  cotisid, 

fried—  free  love,  (hey  call  it  !" 

'And  you  remember,  Mrs.  Juggins,"  sai 
Mrs.  Sorel,  "what  you  told  me  about.  Lincoln 
having  contracted  with  people  to  go  through  tl 


any  one   doubled  it.      Though,' 


nidst  of  Sodom  :  for 
even  seven  thousand 
!ic  knee  to  Baal." 


began  to  feel  as  if  left 
hints,  too,  about  his 
apron  strings,  about  1 
hundred  things  of  tl 
e  could  stand  it  no  ) 
ay  he  enlisted!     He 


alone  in  the  world.  ' 
ieing  tied  to  his  moth 
is  being  afraid  to  go,  i 
3  kind,  wore  upon  him 


ave  done— swept  away  against  every 
of  reason,  religi-      - 
'  in  the  wild  tid. 

W 1    Barker,  if  to 


e  that  sweeps  the  land 


COLONEL  JUGGINS  RIADLNG  Till:  "SOill^VIIJ^E  STAB"  TO 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Februaby  3,  186 6. 


.  otiMit  lolio  made  lo  Icnvc— put tho oilier  sido 


t  jii-^i-.n.  Iiisivlink  liiiiii.-  In 

,,1,-mv    .r  Iiim  wrath.    To  5' 


r!.<-  V;nil;ci  s  fiifiiiyod  in  tins  win-  wont  to  hern'- 
en,  for  his  J'art  lie  would  ]»rel'i;r  poing  to  hell. 
And  it  was  6nid  that  yon  clapped  your  hands, 


r  do.   If  1 


with  horror  from  using,  in  regard  to  any  thing, 
language  which  Li  now  the  everyday  Bpeech  of 
even  ministers  in  the  polpit,  to  say  nothing  of 
Chrijtiani  in  private  life.  Can  it  he  a  holy  cause 
■.  :  ich  in  ■  ■  ii' it  language?  And  we,  poor 
Union  people,  why  are  yon.80  exercised  in  regard 
to  us  ?  We  arc  quint  and  silent ;  one  would  sup- 
pose you 
I  -r  |.i-  ■  ;■!■ 


■on Id  have  a  pity,  a  contempt  even, 
o  deluded  I  Why  arc  you  so  uneasy 
You  sec  no  passion  in  us,  only  cool 
Can  we  help  convictions  which  are 


don't  interfere  with  your  views;  why  can  you 


■  ■■  -  'iied 


•  i  iilwny-  wished  I  could  linn-  sei  n  him  f 
ruin',"  said  Colonel  Juggins.  "I  like  i 
tliur,  like  ]> j>  pix-m-hing— iu«t  a  wunl  nr 
ri  nic  would  huve  fixed  it  ;"  and  the  Coir 
>ipc,  greatly  regretting  he  had 


rn.i:.!.  nl  w.-i-l-:  i,n-j  <<U>-i\. 


IctCCtcd  :i  slight 

g  in  the  art  of 

<n  people  ur  the 


holding  the  tonnue,  which  I' 
South  underwent  during  th 
amazing.  Alas!  tho  long  and  severe  training, 
too,  in  all  manner  of  equivocation,  deception, 
tnul  dissimulation  which  many  of  them  submit- 
ted to  was  one  of  tho  demoralizing  influences  of 
that  most  demoralizing  of  periods. 

"  Never  you  mind,"  interposed  Mrs.  Juggins, 


•'Necly  isn't  tho  man  to  work  on  a  man  like 
Mr.  Arthur.  As  to  that  Guy  Brooks,  he's  worse 
Union  than  the  parson  himself.  As  to  that  red- 
headed Ferguson,  somebody  ought  to  get  hold 
of  that  fellow!  Only  tho  last  week  or  two  I 
hailed  him  as  he  was  riding  by  to  ask  the  news. 
Would  you  believe  it  ?  ho  stopped  his  horse, 
threw  one  leg  over  the  pommel  of  his  saddle, 
and  told  me  a  long  story  of  how  Washington 
had  been  taken  by  Beauregard,  and  how  Lin- 
coln had  been  hung  on  a  pole — flag-pole  it  was 
— on  tho  doino  of  tbo  Capitol;  the  Washington 
pcoplo  hurrahing  underneath  like  smoke,  and 
all  his  dying  confessions,  and  such  like.  He 
told  it  all  as  solemn— yon  know  how  dry  he 
is— never  stirred  a  muscle !  And  I  was  fool 
enough  to  believe  it.  Next  time  he  saw  me 
there  in  Somerville  he  came  up  to  me,  regretted 
— dry  as  you  please — what  be  had  told  me  was 
false  1     *  We  hear  so  many  things  every  day  just 

"Mrs.  Sorel  knows  who  I  mean,"  said  Mrs. 
Juggins,  demurely.  "  Law  me  !  it's  no  secret — 
Miss  Ally  Howies.     If  she  isn't  sound  nobody 


:■  lulu']-,  Colonel, 
l:iy  she  presented 


hecks  as  red  as  tire,  her  eye-  sparkling,  YY 
cr  flag  in  her  hand,  and  all.  -lie  reminded 
f  a   picture  of  the   Goddess  of  Liberty  1  ; 


i  lie  a  thing 


"Hi" 


keel'  did  from  the  n;  -  ^ In.  h  then  spoke  it. 
"  To  lie  like  a  Yankee1'  e\|.r.  <<ed  n  proficiency 
in  the  art  which  Satan  himself  might  onvv. 
"To  run  like  a  Yankee"  left  the  old  similes  of 
deer  and  greyhound  far  behind.  "A  Yankee!" 
hurled  by  one  boy  on  ihc  playground  at  another 


hem  that  I  know  of.     However,  Ally'd  rather 

"Why,  you  are  as  picrt  as  a  tree-frog,  old 

In  a  few  moments  Mr.  Barker  had  left,  care- 

Fully  and  cordially  shaking  hands  with  Colonel 

The  subject  01  the  war  being  exhausted  with  his 

departure,  Mrs.  Jupgins  and  her  husband  were 

plain,  cordial  friends  aa  before  Secession  was 

iveaiued  of  by  them. 

Colonel  read  aloud  to  his  wife  every  word 
the  Somerville  Star,  That  Fort  Donelson  had 
fallen,  and  that  Nashville  was  threatened,  was  too 
evident.  It  is  true  the  Colonel  read  several 
times  over,  with  deep  satisfaction,  the  important 
information  derived  from  the  gentleman  direct 
from  England  ;  yet  even  this  news,  new  as  it 
was  and  delightful  as  it.  was  to  the  Colonel,  pro- 
duced but  a  momentary  relief. 

It  was  a  satisfaction,  however,  to  learn,  as  he 


disasters  were  all  owing  to  the  most  unexpected 
and  abject  cowardice  of  the  military  leaders — an 
event  which  could  by  no  possibility  ever  take 
place  again.  Besides,  the  Star  had  ascertained 
that  the  Tennessee  and  Cumberland  rivers  were 
both  falling  so  rapidly  that  the  capture  of  the 
Federal  gun-boats  and  transports  was  a  cer- 
tainty.    The  Star  even  gave  an  estimate  of  the 


would  thus  fall  into  tho  h 

eracy— "brought  to  us  by   the  fiendish  ei 

just,  when  and  where  we  needed  liie.ni  must 

Never  had  the  Somerville  Sim-  shone 
clearly  than  in  the  puling  dnrkues-  ui'  Ihe  I 
"Mark  our  words,"  said  the  Star,  "if  ai 
our  readers  fall  in  with  any  one  who  enter 
a  doubt,  or  the  shadow  of  a  doubt,  of  our 
cess  in  l  his  glorious  struggle  for  all  man  i 
dear,  that  doubter  is  a  traitor;  yes,  a  tr/ 
to  his  country,  and  s/um/d  /><•  devh  with  as  si 


■    (Wed 


A  NEW  DISEASE ;  OR,  PROPRIA 
QUM  MAKIBUS. 

Said  Mr.  Jonas  Barcarole,  looking  about  him  a 
reakfast,  "Has  any  b.nlv  seen  .lobn  Milling  late 
y?"    Every  body  looked  at  Clara. 

"  He  has  not  been  here  in  a  month,  Sir,"  an 
beautiful  Clara,  promptly. 


'Hon 


,  lniiiy  La 


better  look  after  him  ;"  and 
coat,  for  it  was  now  well  on  in  the  chilly  weall 
the  President  of  tho  Primrose  Bank  went  do 
town;  bat  Clara's  conscience  staid  by  the  breakft 
table;  and  it  tweaked  and  twinged  her  with 
menibrances  of  the  way  in  which  she  had  Miub1 
this  poor  little  Misling,  who  labored  under 
double,  disadvantage  of  being  a  cousin,  and  ma 


>  tying  « 


,o  forlorn  little  m. 
s  dreary  lodging-! 
Irove  her  on  to  her  dres-ing-buro.ii 


D*gl. 

vinaigrette,  -went  to  find  and 

urse  her  missing  cousin. 

Now  John  Misling  was  a  wholly  inappror.ri.ite, 
ufortunate,  unseasonable,  ami  absurd  individual! 
ioisy  when  he  should  be  silent,  mum  when  he 
lould  talk ;  the  rouud  man  in  the  square  hole ; 


where  and  hear  something  to  his  advantage  ;  to  have 
the  small-pox  when  you  counted  on  him  as  grooms- 
man ;  to  break  his  lee;  if  your  case  depended  on  his 
'   '  and  physical  mialnie-. 


care,    persisted  Mr-.  Jurjdns. 

Mi<5  Ally  could  Maud  a  Yankee. 
lowni-.ch  ih.-vniai ■c-believeSfeo-   -ion.   I 
l  only  that  much  more.     Let   nem  go 
:  they  came  from  I     Wha*  I  say  is,  I 


evidence ;  while 

taken  together,  made  such  an 

iiii^hi  have  supposed 

disposition  andp/iysiq 


feet  two  inches  in  height,  with  a  huge  nose  and  a 
red  shining  face,  and  yet  was  haunted  by  a  notion 
of  carrying  himself  loftily  and  gracefully,  lie 
squeaked,  stammered,  talked  fast,  and  without  any 

He  was  the  author  of  perhaps  more  rejected  manu- 
scripts than  any  one  in  the  United  States,  and  yet 
firmly  believed  in  his  own  talents  as  a  writer ;  and 
though  utterly  penniless  and  ridiculous  in  every 
one's  eyes  but' his  own,  was  madly  in  love  with  his 
beautiful  cousin,  Clara  Barcarole,  the  daughter  of 
the  wealthy  President  of  the  Primrose  Batik,  and 


and  the  lu,lite  publisher- of  the  house  of  Sanscrit  & 
Co.  bad  promised  it  "  their  earliest  attention.''  He 
calculated  that  their  "earliest  attention"  signified 
three  weeks,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  intended 
to  demand  an  advance  of  rive  hundred  dollars  on 

would  call  on  the  beautiful  Clara,  and  give  her  an 

opportunity  of  becoming  Mrs.  John  Misling.     Mean- 

.,  and  no  prospect  of  money  from  any  quarter, 
lu  this  dilemma  ho  picked  up  a  little  printed  bill, 
reading  as  follows : 

41  J.  Cakthell,  Dealer  in  all  kinds  of  Ladies'  and  Got- 
tletua's  csaUoff  Clothing,  Bed-*lothing,  Boot*,  Shoee,  old 


a  who  reads  thie  Bill  will  look  up  all  t 


gas,  there  was  nothing  left  for  the  "gray  mix"  but 
to  be  washed.  While  they  were  in  the  hands  of 
Mrs.  O'Flaherty  Misling  would  be  a  trowserlesa 

to  take  advantage  of  his  situation  and  burn  down ; 
or  some  one  might  call ;  or  Mrs.  O'Flaherty  might 
get  drunk  and  forget  him.  But  nothing  venture, 
nothing  have.  Misling  sold  the  linen  trowsers, 
provisioned  himself  with  crackers  and  cheese,  and, 
with  many  injunctions,  placed  the  "gray  mix"  in 
the  hands  of  Mrs.  O'Flaherty. 

It  was  then,  of  all  days  in  the  year,  that  Clara 


and  fluttering  up  tho  dingy  steps  ot  the  dingier 
lodging-house,  filled  its  onion-scented  halls  with 
wafts  of  Night-blooming  Cereus,  and  the  breast  of 
its  landlady  with  profoundest  astonishment. 

Misling  heard  them  coming,  the  shrill  voice  of 


no  waitlng-mmm  the  good    w< 

the y  the  .lamp  slairs  at  on 

"This  way,  ladies.     Take 


them  steps  a 
be  third  door  on  the  left,  la 

glanced  wildly  around   Im- 


itated about  getting  i 

hi-Tfriphl.    ir    nev, 


t  if  hel 


occurred  to  him  to  lock  the 
door;  and  hearing  the  rustle  of  silk  and  patter  of 
bnotdiecls  close  at  hand  he  sprang  hastily  into  bed, 
covering  himself  up  to  the  tip  of  his  nose,  just  as 
Clara  and  Mrs.  Douglass  entered. 

"Ah !"  said  Clara,  looking  about  her  compassion- 
ately.    "Just  as  I  thought.     Now,  Cousin  John, 


.-  bad  of  you  t 


■  ill,  and  r 


I  make  me  come  all  this  way  to  find  how  you 

'You  are  an  angel," answered  Misling,  vagm  lv. 


"  Have  you  been  lon^  ill  ?"  asked  Mrs.  Douglass, 
kindly,  her  womanly  sympathies  thoroughly  aroused 
by  the  dreary,  chilly,  bare,  little  room. 

"Yes— no— that  is~a  day  or  so;"  returned  Mis- 
hiiLT.  m  'Uing  scarlet. 

"  He  has  a  fever,"  said  Clara,  growing  more  and 
mure  .-.mo-rued.  "Loof  at.  ins  f.,ce,  Aunt  Mir. 
iam !  Just  think  of  bis  lying  sick  and  alone  in 
this—" 

She  was  going  to  say  miserable  den,  and  certain- 
ly the  expression  did  the  'wretched  little  room  no 
more  than  justice ;  for  there  was  no  fire  in  the  rusty 
atove— the  carpet,  in  the  wear  and  tear  of  years,  had 
forgotten  long  ago  the  pattern  of  its  youth — and  the 
table,  adorned  with  bowl,  ewer,  shaving  utensils, 
crackers,  cheese,  and  stationery,  was  of  pine,  as  were 
the  two  bard  chairs  occupied  by  the  ladies. 

"What  medicines  haVe  you  taken?"  asked  Mrs. 

1     ...:.J:--.      ■'■    -n   n  u       ,      \ll       ,,,  lli-.llll 

ery  notice  of  bis  surroundings.    "  If  you  have  fever 


to  it  then.     You  are  often 

Clara. 

7  be  said  to  be  periodical," 


have  seen  you  more  comfortable,  do  we,  Aunt  Mir- 

Misltng  burst  out  in  a  cold  perspiration,  and,  for 
the  first  time  in  his  life,  wished  his  fair  cousin  at. 

"  You  must  not  think  of  such  a  thing !  You  are 
too  good,"  he  stammered.  "I  am  well — that  is,  I 
shall  be  well  soon.  You  reallv  give  yourselves  too 
much  trouble." 

"You  bear," said  Clara's  conscience,  bounceable 
as  ever,  under  the  velvet  basque;  "  he  lives  here, 
half  frozen  on  bread  and  cheese,  till  he  falls  ill; 

take  the  trouble  at  last  to  ask  whether  he  is  alive  or 
dead.  Your  own  cousin,  Miss  ;  and  if  he  dies  whose 
fault  will  it—"  Here  the  conscience  was  cut  short  by 

the  lace  handkerchief,  but  on  a  plainer  one  taken 
from  her  pocket,  saying: 

"We  are  hot  too  good  at  all;  and  we  are  not 
going  to  be  put  off  in  that  way,  are  we  Aunt  Mir?" 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


Ictcction  approaching. 


af  disease,  when  suddenly 

nf  tin-  lufklofs  trowsers.  i.'h.irl 


twitching.      •'!  rememher  t 


which  for  nunc  reason  twitched  unaccountably. 

"Aunt  Miriam!"  exclaimed  Clara,  in  surprise, 
and  vaguely  uhrmed;  "  Cousin  John  !  Aunt  Mir ! 
what  is  it?  Is  it  incurohlo?  Is  it  any  thing  like 
fits?"  edging  around  to  peep  under  her  aunt's  bon- 
not,  when  she  saw,  to  her  inexpressible  astonish- 
ment, that  lady  crimson,  convulsive,  and  choking 
with  suppressed  laughter. 

"  I  think  wo  might  go,  Clara,"  said  Mrs.  Doug- 
lass, gurgling.  "I  do  not  believe  that  it  is  very 
dangerous.     John  will  ho  likely  to  got  on  better 

•■Aunt:    C.uisin  John!    what  h  it  all   about," 

Misling  made  no  answer'.  Ho  was  trying  to  die! 
Just  at  this  juncture  a  heavy  step  shook  the  hoards 
of  (he  little  entry,  and,  without  knocking,  entered 
Mrs.  O'Flaheity,  the  "gray  mix"  dangling  from 

"  Arr  here's  yer  pants,  Misther  Misling,"  laying 
the  articles  in  question  on  his  bed,  "though  yez. 

thinkin'i  maybe  they  bVnt  dhry  intirely,  I  hurried 
thim  so."  All  the  time  staring  hard  at  the  lilac  hat 
and  Aunt  Miriam;  and  coming  to  a  dim  notion 
■  i  indiscreet,  Mrs.OTlnherty 
1  mended  tho  matter  thus; 
"An'  shure  and  I'd  have  waited  ef  I'd  known  yes: 
had  company,  only  yez  said  yez  couldn't  go  out 
till  I  brung  thim,  and  charged  me  so  pctiklar,  ye 

Mrs.  Dough 


i-hed  frantically  out  of  the  room, 
followed  hv  Clara,  and  Misling  heard  them  on  the 
landing. 

"Aunt,  what  is  it,  and  what  is  Propria  qua  mari- 

"  His  trowserB,  child,  his  trowsers !  It  means, 
that  which  is  proper  for  men!  Did  you  never  read 
the  story?  Oh!  oh!  oh!"  Suppressed  giggles, 
lush  and  rustle  of  skirts  on  the  stairs,  and  then  the 
jar  of  the  frontdoor  below.  They  were  gone.  Mis- 
ling was  a  proper  and  a  decorous  little  man,  but  he 
could  not  help  saying,  in  strict  confidence  to  the 
luckless  "gray  mix,"  still  on  the  foot  of  his  bed, 
"D— nit!" 

Shortly  after  the  President  of  the  Primrose  Bank 
gave  Misling  a  new  suit  and  a  situation  at  six  hun- 
dred a  year;  but  we  fear  Misling  could  hardly  have 
been  sufficiently  grateful,  for  he  never  gave  the 
President's  .laughter  in  return  that  opportunity  of 
becoming  Mrs.  John  Misling. 


WATCHING   FOR   THE   NEXT 

THING. 

Theke  is  reason  to  believe 

hat  some  peo 

Next;  things  happen,  and  there 

is  an  end.     If 

mder.-tand  Oil 

soliloquy,  or  Hamlet's.     If  they 

have  any  lee] 

none.     Such  p 

ivnln--  of  any  consequence;  for 

h':'  U-ii.'i-  i,;ni 

the  interest  of  reading  lies  in  watching  for  the  ne 

idea.     Let  us,  then,  leave  the  cor 

ing  these  good  folks  fill— next  tii 

e.      Their  con- 

tim.mal   peculiarity  will  prevon 

their  feeling  i 

slight.     But  in  the  mean  while 

we  may,  in  pa 

i  higher  mathematics.     They  cart  feel 

>joy  in  thinking  of  tho  iuiiniie  dm  ibiii'rv  nt  mai- 
r.  They  can  take  no  proper  interest  in  di-solv- 
g  views  or  inexhaustible  bottles.  They  could 
tt  pos-ibly  become  absorbed  in  Kearno  on  Onrin- 
■nt.  Remainders,  or  asirology.or  iiufullilled  propli- 
:v,  or  chess,  or  the  kaleidoscope,  or  any  thing  that. 
mies  Next.     They  must  stick  to  their  Last  j  and, 


J  hev  never  enjoyed  the  spectacle  of  a  file  of  soldiers 
coming  round  a  corner,  or  a  flight  of  birds  coming 
up  from  behind  a  clump  of  trees;  or  even  a  flight 
of  stairs  in  a  proper  manner.  What  could  a  man 
of  this  kind  make  of  Jacob's  ladder?  or  of  the  pay- 
ing out  of  the  Atlantic  telegraph,  for  that  matter? 
1 1  must  surely  have  been  a  witness  of  this  order 
who  gave  that  ridiculous  answer  to  the  barrister's 
simple  question,  which  way  the  stairs  ran.  "  One 
way  they  ran  up,  and  the  other  way  they  ran  down." 
To  a  properly  constituted  mind  there  are  few  objects 
of  greater  interest  than  a  cork-screw,  but  the  class 
we  apeak  could  make  nothing  of  snch  an 


b  subject  we  are,  doubtless,  indebt- 


ay  with  you  and  me :  we  are  fr 


,>le  who  like  a  .'.".  I  moral— the 
your  Kettle  to  the  lire  under- 


.1  ;mr<'  i-.'-l.  i- 
:iking  a»ay  a 


am'  de-imvimr  the  rtenial  Now.     And  what  i 
next  tiling? 

The  iteare-t  pru-tical.apprn.irh  to  this  view o 
case  of  the  wutchrd  keiilo  is  [hat  of  >leeii  tl 


,  keeping  his  pigtail  bc- 


apactty  as  that  you  ( 


"irffn-lw.. 
il, ■    ,,,,„! 


ala,   i  forget  wh 
du  and  I  may,  ai 


know  is  that  we  are  not  asleep,  ami  that,  we  wan 
to  be;  but  it  is  impossible  to  know  the  fact,  whei 
the  essence  oh  being  asleep  is  to  not  know  that  yoi 
are  awake.  If  Dr.  Wigan  were  right — if  the  twi 
hemispheres  of  the  brain  could  carry  on  scparab 
lives,  and  hold  dilleront  opinions,  and  argue  with  eael 
other,  and  convey  different  impulses  to  the  moto 
nerves— Men  we  might,  look  forward  to  being  asleep 
and  knowing  it.    But  who  would  wish  lor  a  double 


.light  lie  agreeable 


,  could  never  i 


veryc 


conditions, 
than  throwing  up  two  balls  at  a  time  for  amuse- 

Protestant  with  half  ids  head,  and  Romanist  with 
the  other  half;  nor  would  the  policemen,  to  say  no- 
thing of  the  street-bo^  permit,  in  public  thorough- 
fares, a  man  to  standWi  one  spot  all  day  long,  with 
his  right  leg  propelling  him  one  way,  and  bis  left 
the  other.  Besides,  if  such  a  constitution  were  to 
be  encouraged,  what  would  become  of  Social  Sci- 
ence? You  would  have  double  columns  of  aver- 
ages directly ;  aud  how  could  you  escape  the  return 
upon  you,  in  a  fresh  form,  of  the  insoluble  problem 
of  the  three  bodies  ? 

It  is  quit  ■  certain  that  the  clown,  who  said  all  he 


he  wanted  both  ends  of  the  rainbow.  In  the  Palais 
dc  la  Virile  of  Madame  de  Genlis  there  is  a  fairy, 
who,  in  the  revenges  of  her  jealousy,  sentences  ber 
husband's  mistresses  to  all  manner  of  fantastic  pun- 
ishments. One  of  them,  a  very  vivacious  girl,  she 
condemns  to  an  apparently  endless  stay  in  a  coun- 
try made  on  purpose,  consisting  entirely  of  level 
nd  cloudless  sky  bonding 


bo  able  to  recall  som 
with  music.     Have  i 


r.dlinir-   d-.MH    lis.  CrtiiH.lnr;", 

I  pass  without  being  remembered ; 


Wo  have  all  heard  of  tho  "rustic"- 


nover  did  really  conceive  such  a  rustic.  Words- 
worth says,  you  know  ("  ICasay  ou  Epitaphs"), 

stream,  did  not  wonder  where  it  caino  from,  and 
whoro  it  would  go  to."     If  such  a  child  there  wore, 

man  there  really  is,  and  I  four  I  have  hinted  as 

there  are,  in  truth,  perhaps  few  children,  porhaps 

transient,  madness,  the  hysteric  passion,  of  watch- 
ing for  the  next  thing.  Some  have  folt  it,  as  adults 
weakened  by  fever  have  felt  it,  on  merely  looking 
at  tho  dancing  spangles  of  a  chandelier;  others  in 
looking  at  a  tree,  tho  top  of  which  just  peeped  over 
tho  gable  of  a  house-roof;  or  at  tho  swift-rising 
moon.  Tho  treo  seems  bb  if  it  must  grow  higher 
that  instant;  and  what  then?  what  will  not  hap- 
pen ?  Tho  moon,  as  if  she  must  climb  Bwiftly  up 
to  a  given  mark,  and  then  up  to  another,  ai 

oilier— ami    what    will    bo    tho    consi  .i.:..e. - .' 


the  mludMol'iny  readers— if  any—  v.i 
nearly  all  men,  in  highly-wrought  n 


Bj    ban  the 

I    Ll.y    Ik.v.c,,, 


grass,  smooth  green  s 


□ess  if  there  he  much  suspense.     A  rapid,  seemii 

<■■■■  ame  tY'.ding,  of  maddening  the  mind;  b 
al-o.  ■■!  soothing  it.  Whtfdoes  not  knowwhat  il 
to  look  over  the  side  of  a  vessel  aMd  watch  1  lie  swi 
following  waves,  or  the  .'wilt-following  bubble-; 
the  Teaming  track  with  a  feeling  that,  if  the  li 
were  broken,  if  one  single  next  were  missed, 
would  he  madness,  despair,  ar.d  infinite  dari:m --■, 


God,  which  beats  time  for  heaven  and  eartb,  if  the 
pace  of  the  current  were  broken.  So.  again,  with  a 
field  of  waving  wheat,  or  blowing  grass,  or  a  mass 
of  woodland  bent  by  a  great  even  wind.  It  has 
seemed  to  me  as  if  no  note  of  passion,  no  shriek  of 
agony,  or  Bhout  of  joy—for  either  would  do — could 
be  strong  enough  to  express  sympathy  with  a  mead- 
ow of  butter-cupt  tossed  and  retossed  by  the  wind. 
If  that  should  be  tht  !g  t  undulation— if  the  golden 


has  brought  him  to!  Love,  who  "hfi 
lain  since  the  days  of  Troy  and  Helen 
the  fall  of  Paris,  and  a  good  many  mo 
There  are  times  when  a  quick  succes 
is  found  merely  soothing;   hut.  they  ; 


ono  Is  right,  and  the  oth< 
twelve  o'clock  is  tweb 
one-o'clock.     This  depen 


Ml      II;, 

r.  i  .i.Tt 


jillwl,  "in  not  long  enough, 
mod,  '■  It's  full  compass— they  do  not  sell  the 
rger  -  how  many  octave^  would  you  have?"  Ho 
any? "said  I,  "millions!     When  you  got  toil 


figure,     llisprivat 

circle.      If  every  I 
tho  globes  are  all  co 


flection  of  tho  start  into  a  straight  line?  -That  is 
my  fooling.  Hence,  I  lovo  bettor  to  think  of  tho 
sea  as  a  great  piano,  on  which  the  whito  coursera 
run  on  endless  race.  Kough  aro  thoir  mones  in  tho 
blowing  south,  and  on  they  go,  multitudinous  in 
music.  Never  shall  we,  who  stand  on  tho  shore, 
see  one  of  them  again.  Wlmu  thin  h  gone,  this  in 
which  dip  tho  feet  of  the  children,  wo  shall  see- 
the next.  And  always,  and  always,  the  next.  How 


OUK  IRON-CLAD  NAVY. 

give  this  week  on  pages  72  and  78  engrav 


1  filri  I   (     1       j  I 

"Yes,  Sir,"  says  the  clown,  "a  cart-load  < 


parent.      In  the  first  place,  our  navy  greatly  out- 

j,,..  to  the  puhli.-.ln-d  estimate  of  the  British  navy 
in"l««3  the  whole  number  of  armor-plated  vessels 
of  all  kinds,  even  including  floating-batteries,  was 
28.  Then,  again,  the  very  principle  upon  which 
ur  iron-clads  are  built  renders  them,  we  think, 
astlv  superior  to  even  tho  most  formidable  arnior- 
lated  vessels  in  her  Majesty's  navy.  Instead  of  a 
trge,  unwieldy  vessel  of  the  Warrior  type,  espos- 
,g  a  large  surface  to  the  shot  and  shell  of  an  ad- 
ersary,  we  have  the  compact,  light,  and  easily- 


j  published  by  Enoioott  &  Co.,  of  this  c 


INTERIOR  > 

THE  IBON-CLAD  NAVT ' 


STATES.-[See  Page  71.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Febbpaby  3, 1866. 


avingly  L'.i'in:-'  1 1  pv.-.-i  r.  I    !hrc.n  cli    .1    1 

nutpletelv  lost  hi-  sense.-  was  a  pair 


:rly  uncle,  and  wormu.-od,  in  the  guL-e  of 
,ore  covetous  .unit,  fo. ,,  j>1  ,_-t  ,1  v-   l.rtrrcd  tli-_- 


ward,  and  exercised  i 


!  Captain,  laughing. 

"Trouble!"   returned  the  dejected    Pat;    "my 

's  just  brok.^  with  (lu-m." 

Vhy  don't  you  gel.  medical  i 


What  ilid  hewivi'"  asked  the  Captain. 

"Of  course  I  can,*:  said  the  elated  Pat.     "L 

told  me  I  had  deranged  ducks  in  my  cistern  1" 

the  barn  dour  we  borrowed  ;.t  Culpepper  and  1 

Nonsense!"  paid  the  Captain. 

always  the  old   woman   with  the  petticoat  am 

Thnie  for  vou,  Sir,"  replied  the  indignant  Pat; 

hoops  I  got  off  of  a  flour  barrel  ?     Just  you 

at's  just  what  it  was— the  ignorant   havthen! 

till  you  eee  me  with  a  real  illegant  hoop  on.  a 

little  dudeen   in  jny  mouth,  and  you'll  take 

daw  I'm  my  own  grandmother." 

"Very  well,  Pat,"  said  the  Captain,  "I  r 

often  that  hut  for  you  ^  should  have  been  left 

trust  to  you.     Do  the  best  you  can,     Youlll  fin 

r,1  Hi-  K 


going  through  boiling  water  a  second  time." 

"Never  fear  for  me,  Captain,"  said  Pat,  rushing 
off.      As  In;  disappeared  down  the  street  the  passers- 
by  were  eleetrilied  with  an  occasional  line  from  the 
strikingly  descriptive  ballad  of  Bryan  O'Lynn. 
The  Captain  looked  after  him  as  ho  disappeared, 


ivllert.  '1 


the  hotel. 

upon  "the  situation."  His  6olc  re- 
the  pay  of  a  Captain  in  the  army,  rude 

He  was  in  that  singular  abnormal  con- 
1  always  the  result  of  a  dreadful  fall, 
nthnuiable  depth,  into  the  abyss  called 
:  foot  of  the  precipice  over  "which  he 
mself  he  had  seen  a  pair  of  blue  eyes, 


.  [,-)  -(v-inriglv  >|]u\mi  by  I  lie  lovers.     The 
«us  at  hi<  wit's  end.      lie  had  almost 
ind  to  call  for  volunteers,  storm  and 
i  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet,  when  Pf 

kiwii  to  Ovid  —  Mercury  in  petticoat-. 
di."soIil<.qum-d  I  he  Captain,  '  1  had  a  bet- 
k:  to  offer  her  than  a  Captain'-  pay,  and  a 
a  lottery  ul"  hulled;  bni  lier  guardians  use 
u kindly  that  f  believe  any  change,  even  the 
would  be  welcome  to  her.  I 
i  take  her  away,  by  force  if  necessary. 
i-  my  mother  would  receive  her,  and 


life  of  Hie  camp. 


ted  a  ragged  urchin, 
II  cry. 


exclaimed  the  Captain.  < 

"Yes,  Sir,"  said  the  boy,  coming  to  a  stop,  and 
standing  on  one  foot.  "Here  they  are,  Sir  ;  morn- 
ing papers— great  fight !    Capture  of  Richmond — all 


army  d..n'l  la  he  i 


that  Richmond  had  fallen  once  more ;  "  let  me  see, " 
said  the  Captain.  "Hum  !—  Frightful  murder!'— 
■Grand  Cavalry  Skirmish  !'  Felicitous  juxtaposi- 
tion that;  gross  mismanagement  of  the  War  De- 
partment, of  course ;  this  correspondent  was  origin- 
ally intended  for  Secretary  of  War.  Here  we  have 
it,  at  last.  '  Highly  important  from  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac  1'  'No  probability  of  an  Advance!' 
There's  something  gratifying  in  the  originality  of 


auf  patriots  had  small  appetite  for  their  breakfast 
this  morning,  I'm  afraid.  '  List  of  drafted  men- 
Hen  Casscdv,  Fish  Henrv,  Thomas  Evans,  Peter 
Safeguard!'     Huzza!      I  have  him  now.      imbuy 

agnnieP  "*  f-ar.     Ho  knows  it's  next  to  impossible 

to  get  a  "ub.stitute,  Mr.  Piter  Safeguard,  in  about 
one  hour,  I  shall  do  myself  the  honor  of  calling  upon 
you."  So  saying,  the  Captain  entered  the  hotel, 
which  he  had  reached  at  the  close  of  his  cursory 
glance  at  the  paper.  Leaving  him  actively  pre- 
paring to  beat  up  the  enemy's  quarters,  the  reader 
may  take  the  liberty  of  inspecting  for  himself  the 
garrison  of  the  white  house  on  the  top  of  the  bill, 
no'v  commanded  by  Mrs.  Peter  Safeguard,  vice  Pe- 


gray, thoroughly 
henpecked  and  subdued,  and  with  one  trait  of  indi- 
viduality that  perhaps  saved  him  from  sinking  into 
hopeless  imbecility  under  the  sharp  discipline  of  Ins 
wile's  tongue.  This  salient  point,  which  redeems 
Peter  from  being  considered  only  gencrieally  in  this 
'"  grasping  and  covetous  disposition. 
'  •  ■    he*cc 


It  was  the  onlv  point 
with  his  wife.    'He had 


point  upon   which  he  contended 


woman,  cmi-iderably  older 
termined  champion  of  woman's  rights,  a 
prietress  of  her  husband  in  every  sense  c 
She  had  wooed  Peter  with  fierceness,  a 


npelled  f'eter 
-.1  unwilling 

,  sharp-nosed 


:  of  the  European  courts,  ; 

■",   bfcuining  laminated  wit 
!e,  l-ale,  -hnde!   widow,  mai 


'di.i.!'  iv  hi-., tee  out,  and  the  ,-e-,,h-  was  that 
"iiiau  d  mghn-r  li m  t  wiih  ;.i  niu-t  ignooiin- 
i  !Vo,n  ih-  Iragile  widen-.,  who  proved  her- 


:    the    old    ilii.hmi^Csi    at    Lis   own    wcap.'n 
o'  lline-  hi,, i  i0  <  rtle  every  dollar  of  hi-  p 

,il   her;    and  by  dint    <if  ludiemns    I1JI'   illg  t 
ivr   -uperao  mat   d    husband .   who  dud  ui  ; 


iflict  in  society;  but 
6poke  of  her  step- 


This  estimable  lady  is  now  seated  in  the  drawing. 
room  of  her  own  house;  and  seated  with  her,  in  a 
very  daspondent  mood,  the  fair  heroine  of  the  story 
is  compelled  to  listen  to  the  advice,  a  thousand  times 
administered,  to  receive  the  attentions  of  an  old 
clodhopper  whose  only  attractions  consisted  of 
bonds,  mortgages,  and  other  evidences  of  the  great 

"It  is  no  use' for  you  to  talk,  Mary,"  said  Mrs, 
Safeguard,  "Mr.  Walworth  is  in  every  respect  an 
eligible  parti.  I  am  determined  you  shall  marry 
him,  and  your  uncle  is  determined  you  shall  marry 


-  determined  mi. 


replied  the  irascible  Mrs.  Pe- 
nned w/  tn  have  a  voice  in  the 
Cach  him  that  he  had.      His 

id  n  i- ij  determined  too,  or  I'd 


"  But,  aunt,"  said  Mary,  "you  know  I  have  giv- 
en my  promise  to  Captain  Matchlock,  and  if  you 
could  only  be  induced  to  .approve  the  engagement— " 

" Engagement  1  You  talk  like  a  child;  there  is 
no  engagement,  and  never  shall  he.  A  soldier,  in- 
deed! I  believe  in  the  old  saw,  'Marry  a  soldier 
and  carry'his  wallet.'  Besides,  we  have  both  set 
our  hearts  on  your  marrying  Mr.  Walworth." 

"  Why.  aunt,"  said  Mary,  "he  is  seventy  years 

"Well,"  said* Mrs.  Peter,  "that  don't  hurt  him. 

"And  that,"  rejoined  Mary.  "I  suppose  you  con- 
sider equivalent  to  twice  seventy  thousand  virtues." 
"Nonsense,  child,"  said  Mrs.  Peter,  impatiently. 

'  totbatfashi., liable  luMrdMiu-rh.,,,! 


-  In"  id    i 


f  Orai 


the  court-ball.  If  it  had  been  you,  your  head  would 
have  been  completely  turned.  It  didn't  spoil  me, 
though.  And  when  the  Baron  de  Vandercleuzin,  a 
delightful  young  man,  with  weal;  eyes  and  light  hair, 
with  a  great  golden  mustache,  offered  me  his  band 
and  heart  I  sent  him  about  his  business.     I  found 


model  of  a 


ter,  a  steady  man,  and  a.  ma 
.at   the  consequences.  He  i: 

us  comfortable.      Depend  u 

"I  would  rather  live  on  a  crust  for  the  remain- 
der of  iny  days,"  said  Mary,  "  than  marry  a  man  I 

"Stuff  and  nonsense!"  rejoined  Mrs.  Peter,  in  the 
most  positive  manner.  "  '  Love  in  a  cottage.'  Bah! 
love  in  a  pig-sty;  and  who  is  this  Captain  Match- 
lock ?     Nobody  knows  any  thing  about  him." 

"He  is  a  brave  soldier,  aunt,"  retorted  Mary, 
indignantly — "a  brave  soldier,  who  has  fought  fot 
his  country — a  title  that  every  man  who  loves  hi] 

Mrs.  Peter  was  about  to  reply  to  this  indignant 
burst  on  the  part  of  her  niece,  withsome  reflection's 
upon  the  patriotism  that  was  bought  with  money, 
when  she  was  interrupted  1 


a  in  with  a  newspaper  ii 

ed  to  walk  up  and  down  tne  a 

anner   -v.  nervous  and  a-j:ibu<  d 


mmortal  Peter,  who 
'  ig-room  in 


i  polar  bear  in  a  cage  ?" 


papers  nowadays  are  a 


rat...- growled  Peter. 

"Mr.  Safeguard,"  said  his  wif< 
determined  look,  "do  you  intend 

'■'  Mir   dealt,'    said   J>< 


the  papers,  and 

■  :. eidolon;  Mr-. 


now  do  you  under- 


said    Telcr, 
lit  something 


l  sudden  light  broke  in  upon  the  urn 
bis  wife.  Sho  stamped  her  foot  it 
ou  don't  mean  to  tell  me,  Peter," 


"Prevent  it!"    retorted    his   wife,    scornfully, 
why  didn't  you  get  appointed  on  the  Committee, 


February  3,  1866.] 


HAKPER'S  WEEKLY. 


iduals  of  the  intellectual 
Wished  for  me." 

Mr.-.  Safeguard,  wi 


(i-L'inur  her  hand?   -<  h  .Inlia, 
unfortunate  heroine    in  the 

What's  tn  lie  done?" 

terpreting  the  soliloquy  for  a  call 


»  The  faat  is  not  to  be  thought  of,"  said  Mrs.  Safe- 
guard, reflectively. 

"And  the  first  -won't  bear  thinking  of,"  added 
Peter,  with  a  shiver. 

"Oh,"  said  Mrs.  Peter,  impatiently,  "you  are  a 

"Tho  fact  of  my  marrying  you  proves  the  con- 
trary, my  dear,"  said  Peter,  complacently. 

"Tbaf's  right!"  retorted  Mrs.  Peter,  "abuse  your 
■wife!  But  I  advise  you,"  she  said,  with  sudden 
ferocity,  "to  save  all  your  wrath  for  the  enemy. 
You'll 'need  it  before  you  get  through!" 

At  this  moment,  and  befcre  Peter  could  find  a 
fitting  retort  to  this  last  unexpected  attack,  a 
knock  was  herrdat  the  door.  "Come  in!"  said 
Mrs.  Peter,  tin'  iking  it  was  one  of  the  servants. 

To  her  ordf  ■  the  door  quietly  opened,  and  there 
appeared  a  stalwart  woman,  dressed  in  a  calico 
frock,  which  was  so  long  that  it  trailed  on  the 
ground.  Al  dough  the  weather  wan  warm  she  was 
bundled  up  in  a  large  woolen  shawl,  while  her  head 


,  Outing  luck  seemingly  In  tli. 
Ion  of  it.  indicated  a  red,  coarse 


taknblo  brogue,  proclaimed  her  race.  'This  c 
grown  oddity  stood  at  the  door  and  courtesied 
eral  times,  until  Mrs.  Safeguard,  irritated  at 
eight,  cried  out: 

"  What  do  you  want  here,  old  woman  ?" 
"  Sure,  ma'am,  I'm  in  a  dale  of  trouble,"  replied 
a  voice  so  deep  and  hoarse  that  it  added  to  the 


a  cried.     ."Say  wh 


3  poor  widders;  and 


,m,  he  didn't  come  here  at  all.      H 

ng  around,  contrived  to  show  Mar 
l  letter,  by  "poking  it  at  her"  slylj 


an  almost  imperceptible  nod  gave  Pat  to  ( 
Btand  that  she  comprehended  the  plot. 

"Sure,  ma'am,'1  said  Put,  addressing  him; 
Mrs.  Safeguard,  "it  wasn't  the  poor  boy's 


■s,  to  tread  heavily  np-'ii  P  .'tor's  foot,  and  to 
Mr?.  Safeguard  an  imp!,  a-.int.  dig  in  the  stom- 
with  his  elbow.  "While  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter 
were  writhing  under  these  inflictions  Pat  contrived 
slip  the  letter  into  Mary's  hand,  who,  on  rcceiv- 
g  it,  turned  her  back  and  walked  to  the  win- 

"Oh,  I  feel  so  much  better  now,"  said  Pat;  "I 
el  so  much  rwFaywi*.     Every  time  I  hear  of  any 

xly  being  firaftai  it  gives  me  a  pain  in  my  waist." 
Mrs.  Peter,  who  had  been  dancing  around  in  the 


t;   "I'd  give 

,dd  wavteh, 
a^ked    Mv-.. 


i  the  Army  of  the  Potomac :  I  t 


a  letter:  approaching  her  cautiously,  she  caugl 
tbe  paper  from  her  hands,  and  in  a  moment  ma< 
hers-df  acquainted  with  tlie  contents. 

"Very  pretty,  indeed,  you  minx,"  she  crie. 
"A  love-letter  from  that  wretch  of  an  officer.  Bi 
I'll  frustrate  his  plans.  As  for  yon,  you  impudent 
old  woman,  I'll  teach  you  what  you  may  expect  if 
you  ever  put  your  foot  in  this  house  again." 

highly  polilir.l  i.ea-s 


■  dear  Madam,"  said  Captain  Match- 


'  IVter  .Safeguard,"  continued  the  Captain. 
'I  believe  I  am  indebted  to  inv  godfathers  f 
uencoofalong  lis!  of  Peter 


Forty-seventh  Michigan. 
"Sir,"  rejoined  Peter, 


the  pleasure  of  informing  you  that 
Hundred  and 

of  my  bavin.; 


i  of  showing  you  llie  lace  of  tho  enemy." 

,  Captain,  that   1   should    inliniteh 
buck  of  the  enemy  in  full  flight," 


oof  a  hundred  battles 
f  by  flight.     Ho  ran 


1  seo  if  this  poker  or  your 
Irs.  Peter.      So 

Pat,  and  rained 
:md  'dmul.ler-, 
as  compelled  to 


Peter  here,  who  has  gone  ant 

But  what  do  you  want  here  ?': 

Pat,  disregarding  the-  .pie^t 

lv  at  Peter  and  e\elaim--d,  ''S 


av«,"  said  Peter,  desponding  as  t 

"The  army  is  in  luck." 

said  Pat,  "you  are  going  to  shou 


tftii  r 


111  g 


■  Von  ;"  -a  til  Pel-.--!,  Innking  contemptuously  upon 
the  blundering  Irishman.  "  Do  you  think  the  Gov- 
ernment will  accept  an  old  woman  in  my  place  ?" 

"An  old  woman!"  retorted  Fat.  "Begorra!" 
he  muttered  to  himself,  "  I  quite  forgot  I  was  my 
own  grandmother.  Faix,  Sir,"  he  said,  "I  don't 
know  why  one  old  woman  isn't  as  good  as  another 

Here  Mrs.  Safeguard,  who  allowed  no  one  to 

abuse  her  husband  but  herself,  immediately  struck 
in,  most  dehantly: 

"  How  dare  you,"  she  cried,  "call  my  husband 
an  old  woman,  you  impudent  old  wretch  ?     It's  my 


'■  Sure,"  said  Pat,  "I'm  fasting  from  all  but  sin 
lis  blessed  moment;  and  you  ought  to  be  ashamed 

-  yourself  to  insult  a  poor  lone  widder,  without  a 
lick  or  a  child  in  the  wide  world— not  one  out  of 
.'venteen.  barring  my  poor  hoy  Jemmy,  and  they've 

-  ■fled  him  into  the  army.  Sure  they've  broke  my 
cart  entirely,  so  they  have,  oh!  oh!"  Here  Pa't 
'.'-■ni  lo  sob  violently.       "  I've  got  the  draft  ,-ouie- 


t  to  Pat  that  ingenious 


and  Mrs.  Peterpursued  him  with  the  fury  of  Achilles 
chasing  Hector  round  the  walls  of  Troy.  In  vain 
the  thing  foe  broke  down  the  bridges  behind  him 
in  his  flight  by  strewing  chairs  in  the  path  of  tho 
relentless  Fury.  She  showed  so  much  agility  that 
Pat,  finding  himself  encumbered  by  his  long  skirts, 
gathered  them  up,  and  consequently  exposed  the 
light  blue  of  the  infantry:  Mrs.  Peter  stood  aghast 
at' the  sight,  for  one  moment,  and  then  rushed  from 
the  room  and  shrieked  for  tbe  police.  Mary  fol- 
lowed her,  and  Peter  and  Pat  remained  the  survivors 
of  the  skirmish.  Fat  immediately  divested  himself 
of  his  feminine  garments,  and  stood  in  his  skeleton 
hoop  like  a  gigantic  blue-bird  in  a  cage.     Peter, 


theOneHui 

"Do  you  mean  to  say.''  s; 
(pointing  to  the  hoop-skirt)  is 
regiment  ?" 

Mere  Pat.  looking  d.c.vn,  di 


llv  upon  his  surviving  come 

'  Now,''  said  Peter,  '■  1  dion 
l  matter  of  enrio-iiy,  what  t 


liX'-'iV' 


3  d— 1  brought  you 
all,"  replied  Pat, 


"  returned  Pat,  "  I  brought  it  in  my 
; from?"  said  Peter. 

t  me,  my  fine  fellow,"  continued 
ave  laid  yourself  liable  to  severe 
trou  have  entered  my  house  surrcp- 

■,"  replied  Pat ;  "  I  entered  through 

inuedMr.  Safeguard,  "you  a 


s  of  your  misdeeds  by 


nployoror  take  the  eon?equer 

to  you,"  said  the  imprrturh- 
ake  a  glass  of  whisky  and 


of  money.     Now,  Captain,  yt 

deal  of  tho  service.      Look  at  me  :  do  you  t 


'I  am  afraid  tho  Govornm 
at,"  replied  the  Captain. 
1  Come,"said  Peter,  imploi 


eternally  indebted 


"  Under  some  circumstances,"  said  Peter,  reflect- 
ively, "  I  think  I  could  make  great  sacrifices  for 
niv  country;   but,  unfortunately,  those  ■ ' 


couraging  emile.     "  After  the  first  battle  you  won't 

"I  have  no  doubt,"  said  Peter,  "that  your  pre- 
diction would  bo  singularly  verified  ;  but,  unfortu- 

nalelc.   if.;|h.->'-  /  bailie  I  object 


Pat,  with  tbe  t 

difficulty. 
"  You  object 

the  Captain. 


e  I'lr-  l,"relorb-al 
iumphant  air  of  a  man  who  had 
nted   an   apparently 


Peter,  reflectively, 


'I  don'l  so  much 


Captai 

reflect  much  credit  on  the  service,  I'll  furnish  you 
with  a.  substitute  free  of  expense." 

"My  dear  Sir,"  said  Peter,  seizing  the  Captain 
by  both  hands  and  shaking  them  in  a  fervor  of 
gratitude. 

"  On  one  condition,"  added  the  Captain. 

"Oh!"  said  Peter,  with  a  sudden  elongation  of 
his  countenance,  and  dropping  the  Captain's  hands. 

"  I  love  your  niece,  and  I  have  every  reason  to 
believe  that  she  loves  me,"  continued  the  Captain. 

"  With  regard  to  the  latter  part  of  your  asser- 
tion," exclaimed  Mrs.  Safeguard,  with  great  asper- 
ity, "  I  can  inform  you,  Sir,  that  you  are  very  much 


"ubicel  P  worthy  of  some  consideration." 
lis  opinion  conflicting  so  strongly  with    her 
?was  uttered  by  Mnrv,  who  now  advanced  and 
the  hand  ol  the  Captain. 

■  Captain,  holding  Mary  by  the 


hand,  "give  your  . 


against     1,1=    better    half,    relieved    a    im.it 

H.-n.  turning  lo  the  (V.pPiin,  (-cleiu.ed  : 

'■  It's  a  bargain.     Get  me  out  of  the  sc: 


ne-;.       Il'yn 'M   »iJi   I"  :i.-.-M,,i|.|H'   cue  llimr..r  nm 

meat,  -iilier  .villi  lieu.l  or  linn.),  Miey  nui'l.   lo..-p  clec.ro 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  3, 


February  3,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Fbbruabt  8,  1866. 


HOME  AND  FOREIGN  GOSSIP. 


lone  mealc*    Now  King  Charle*  lout  his  bearl,  nn<l  700 

UatUVitt  rod  r    Now,  my  advice  Is,  *  Kiss  Che  rod P  " 
A  London  Journal  pre3CDta  a  aomowhot  leoglliy  com- 


- 1  l.e  lli-lu 

.nrlliul  111- 

,Iic.--.vn.i 

|K.scd  »t  111 

ssippi  Uivor,  and  mucl 

T,  .-I,. 1,  .,!,.;.:■  .1..-   .ill-i      :j.|-    ..'*<  ',   "     "  «■•    ■' 

miles  west,  is  nmm.-illy  i""i'  !■■(■  'I.  '•""!  <*  of' 
Hit-   |;.<1  l.'iver.      '!!»■  i:.irl!.i.n  omrnTpr,  1 


Tli- nt.lv  .■ill.-.  1 
— issia 

.  i.wmVi  "f  I..... 


along  about  three- fourths  of  its  western  border. 

Pontctiurtniin,  Hume.  Chemituchee,  Calcasieu,  etc. 
It  bos  on  entire  ecu-const  line  of  ubout  bW  miles, 
v.I.i.  h  :iii'.>.i.*  linl  lVw  noml  harbors. 

The-  population  of  lite  Slate  in  JRCO  was  70R,002, 
of  which  367,02:1  were  whites,  18/.47  freo  colored, 


lintleman,  eam.stly  oocorc<1  in  convert  n> 


,i,„-|.  U    ,u.ti.o 
i-,:ib,.».n,llyl.. 


)  filthy  apot  with  her  deli- 


1  produced;  rye,  8li,0i 


iickwIiMt.ltill;  ri.e.rV;'.-'!  .'..7  |.oi..hU:  mid  there 
ere  produced  of  i>ea6C  and  beans,  431, 1-18  bu-hels ; 
rUh  put aloes,  J?4.GG5,  sweet-potatoes,  2.000,1181; 


tobacco,  89. WO  pounds;  wool,  290,847  ;  bay,  52,721 
tons;  and  there  were  made  ut  the  Baroe  period, 


0  give  audi  aid  aa  ie  possible 


real  and  pergonal  ot 


Muc»t«m.—lU 
in  I860  amounted 
ent  of  Public  Edu< 
I-  very  defective  1 


1  u-oro  cratti.jd  iuuinLAiou." 


etytes  of  opparti  in  pulilic  places. 


idbcef,  wufeluttood  Uiw,-.  .,'ii.r'r.u.i  h.'i  ii.--.iu,.    t..i" 
'■7'.'..      ...  .y   li'u.'t  .j'r.eil   lu.'f.'tl.l'    [";..!>•  i.  I   U...I   I..- 


icently  took  place  in  Fhtl 


A  pood.-toiy  with  a  gun  I  m»v:\\  \-  never  amit'\  e-^peeinl- 


forc  it  as  chaff  before  a  whirlwind.  Every  lady 
tjarnisbes  her  clothing  now  with  ruffling,  for  the 
ploinest  and  least  expensive  ruffling  is  considered 
more  elegant  than  the  most  estraort!inarj- embroid- 
ery. In  view  of  this  enormous  demand  lor  ruf- 
fling, the  Magic  Kcctlk  Comi'AXV  bears  the  <ame 
relation  to  the  fi  mule  toilet  that  the  steum  engine 
docs  to  the  traveling  world.     For  in  the  old  days 

spent  oil  the  moments  they  could  glean  from  neces- 
sary duties  in  the  ncver-emlinff  and  fearfully  tedious 
toil  of  hemming  them.     And  yet  how  pitiful  and 


Mauic  Rdfflk  Company,  which,  in  their  perfect 
evenness  and  sustained  bemty,  seem  rather  a  work 
of  art  than  one  of  domestic  manufacture.  Those 
garments  which  arc  not  bordered  with  magic  ruf- 
fling nowadays  may  be  said  to  be  only  "half  made 
up,"  and  to  come  to  a  most  "lame  and  impotent 


BUHNETT'S  OOCOAINE. 

m.i.i   i.;.|>lii:.liti:-.  nnili.:?  the  lluir(no  matter 

It'iml   liy")  'Oft  n:nl  i;lu*-v  l.n  ivurul  ilays. 

•   lbj-all     '     ' 


r  .-.ill  cvury  \i  liere. 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 
STORY  OF  THE  GRAND  MARCH. 

BEADLE'S  CITIZENS'  DIME  EDITION  OP 

REPORTS  OF 
Major-Gen.  W.  T.  SHERMAN. 

OFFICIAL  COPT,  COMPLETE. 


'..i'h'i!'  "ll.'X'' 


AGENTS  WANTED  TO  SELL 

GRANT 

AND  HIS  CAMPAIGNS. 

By  HENRY  COPPEE,  A.M., 
Editor  of  Tlie  United  States  Service  Magazine, 


I  i-nt.-Geu.  I'   S.  r.HAjiT,        Mnjoi 
Mg.1.1,,.1,,  Nld'uiir.Boi.,  Majol 

M  Mi  ,»«,  Major 

Mini-inn.  111:11,  Mnjoi 

And  M.\rs,  Plans,  d] 


IN  I'll:  C.llNLil.i^  !,];asts  sANrnri';, 


GOLDEN  PALM  OIL  SOAP. 


DON'T  BE  FOOLISH. 


EVERY  MAN  HIS  OWN  PRINTER, 


VIOLINS  and  BOWS 

FREDERICK  HI.OIK,  iu<  Jiowery. 


"Camphor-Ice  with  Glycerin." 


LADIES'  LETTER. 

ddreaB  ilua.  Da.  JiEWLEil,  E    ^yn  p.  o.,  N.  Y.  ' 


Febrcabt  3,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


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Worth  $500,000! 

,   BE    SOLD  AT   ONE   DOLLAR    EAI 
WITHOUT  REGARD  To  VALUE, 


b„r.  .irH  I  ben  i[  ii  ,.t  your  oui.en  to,cnil  ,.0u  ,i„i|u,  u:,d 
i  ...    -  .    ..inc.-  .  r  ii..:     Or:,-  .,t  th,  se  ,  neei,]...  v,  ,11  l.i:cut 

l.i.  «  ,i.b  Rire-.  special  terms,  full  1.  i.  ami  iMiiiralw. 
AJIr..isJ.H.\VIS-UiH   ...  Ul.vii  I ■■■    ,N.  V. 


IPrtrm  the.  Rev.  J.W.I 


THE  WHITE  PINE  COMPOUND, 


■  r.  in'Wli.^Iih.L 


THE  DAYS 


■:■   -I    ih-    Nu-cvl-.    :>ni|    lllU-V.        ■),..   !.--(.    I  In..    Vllllir    ,.C    il    il 

.'.-'    :Uln.lu.:l  ,o,  A  ojim f....iii..l,-.l  el  Finn),  quantity  of  th 
II  'I  1       h  t     tifyint    \\itb 


PINE  COMPOUND. 

A:;  a   i.-iLi.'.ly  for  kidney  complaints,  the  Wliite   : 
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;■:■  .'.-..l;  known.      It,  cur..-;  f.-rc   throat,  ootigl   ■.  .ii<  I  n  ■ 
!■    -ii-  .J':--,   -putine   of  blood,  and  pulnn.u.i  ■■'  .i.l.- : 
t.-'.rrailv.      It  ii  :t  remedy  for  diabetes  bke-i     :  !■■■■. 
kidneys  and  bladder,  :iml  .cc;tv..i  ;  :u,d  s"  - =-  j 
vy  it  will  be  found  valuable.    Sold  by  druggi.-ta  and  t 

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Superfluous  Hair  Removed 


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Are  Over. 

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JEWELRY. 

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ORGANS. 


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DURNO'S  CATARRH  SWUPF. 


Wholesale  by  D.  BARNES  I 


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TIMEKEEPER. 

ONE     DOLLAR    EACH 


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SOCIAL  LIFE  OF  THE  CHINESE:  With  eomo  Ac. 
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NOTES  FliOM  PLYMOUTH  PULPIT: 


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Webster's  Vegetable  Hair  Invigorator. 


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FOR  FEBRUARY,  1866. 


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TERMS. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  3,  1866. 


IS  WASHINGTON  TERRITORY   IN   DANGER? 

E  5IODEEN  AUK,  THE  MODERN  NOAH,  AND  THE  M01IERN  "WATERFALLS"  THAT  ARE  ADOU 

DESCEND  El'UN  WASHINGTON  TERRITORY. 

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ROBINSON  &  OGDEN, 


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AGRAFFE-PIANOS, 


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Sniolander's  Extract  Buoku. 

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s. 


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is  one  of  tb*  loveliest  i 
future  Queen  or  the  wi 


HZ 


ig  enough,  will  one  tit 
The  picture  which  v 
photograph  by  Mcssr 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 

Satohdav,  Februahv  10,  1866. 


PROPOSED  CONSTITUTIONAL 
AMENDMENT. 

tv  liich  respect  for  the  ad- 


W1^ 


clearly  exhausted.  Yet  when  the  Reconstruc- 
tion Committee  reported  n  constitut ionnl  amend- 
ment  of  the  utmost  gravity,  nnd  before  the 
House  could  have  n  chance  of  consideration, 
or  the  country  of  declaring  itself,  he  threat- 
ened the  call  of  the  previous  question.  Had 
he  persisted  a  very  -erious  mischief  would  have 
been  done.  As  it  is,  the  House  will  bo  wary 
hereafter. 

The  amendment  reported  is  substantially 
iat  of  Mr.  Blaine.  It  propo.es,  in  substance, 
i  apportion  representation  to  the  whole  nura- 


who  may 


to  apportion  reprc-euhil] 
ber  of  the  popult  ' 
be  disfranchised  by  reason  of  race  or  color.  In 
effect,  it  is  a  bribe  of  increased  political  power 
offered  to  the  late  Slave  States  to  induce  them 
to  give  political  equality  to  their  colored  popu- 
lation.    It  is  one  of  the  innumerable  indirect 


■illv  indispensa- 
tion  of  the  late 
ink,  will  at  las> 


ble  to  the  successful  reorganizi 

be  attained  by  simpler  nnd  dir. 
Mr.   Jenckes,  of  Rhode  ] 

distinctly  an 


States  may  disfranchise  he- 


of  which  Congress 
it  enabl 


a  ouue  to  exciuuc  largo  musses  oi  ir, 

of  all  colors  by  a  property  qualifica- 

'     where  Con- 


electoral  qualification,  mai 
sentation.      In  South  Ca 


many  of  the 


s  easier  than  for  the  Sta 
l  property  qualification,  ' 


|-ei.rc:-ui|t;-iti 

--,   Cmigre- 


■n.hncnt   defining    the   <| 

iduT-tanale  citbn 


United  States  in  na- 


i  disfranchised  by  ignor- 
e  is  a  very  bad  thing , 
better  than  disloyal,  and 


iides,  as  Mr.  Boutwi  ll  asked  with  emphasis 
Pan  educational  test  were  imposed  and  the  do 
vision  of  its  adequate  fulfillment  were  left  t< 
white  judge. 


I  they  a 


that 


The  airy  gentlemen  who 
ation  can  bo  alienated  from  the  other  half  for 
>rty  years,  and  after  appealing  to  a  tremendous 

ivi'l  war,  which  rages  for  four  years,  tearing  up 
ic  industrial  and  political  system  of  half  a  con- 
ncnt  by  its  roots,  and  after  one  party  is  van- 
few  weeks  or  months  by  a  free  use  of  the  word 
conciliation,"  will  have  an  opportunity  of 
:arning  wisdom  from  events.      The  duties  of 


SENATOR  TRUMBULL'S  BILL. 

The  passage,  in  the  Senate,  of  Mr.  Trum- 

jll'6  bill  for  continuing  and  enlarging  the 


operations  of  the  Frcodmen's  Bureau  will  be 

ollowcd,  we  trust,  by  its  early  passage 

n  the 

louse.     Tlio  debate  was  ample,  and  it 

sonly 

urged 

gainst  it  was  utterly  refuted.     The  abil 

yand 

the  tono  of  the  speeches  in  its  favor  we 

trasted  with  those  against  it  as  humani 

yand 

justice  nnd  enlightenment  are  always  co 

'd  with  injustice,  and  meanness.     It  was 

hnt  Mr.  Gakheti- Davis  should  miike  n  \ 

■d  spectacle  ot  Inmsell,  and  orler  a  motio 

upon 

he  final  passage  ot  the  hill  which  the  l'i'c 

sident 

of  the  Senate  could  not  entertain;  for  the 

only,  with  Senator  Saulsdubv  of  Delaw 

re,  by 

Hirsts  of  impotent  and  ridiculous  rage 

ever  any  proposition  is  made  toward  justice  to 

he  race  whoso  long  unjust  treatment 

nought  the  war  upon  our  homes  and  hearts. 

ator  from  the  Northwest,  a  friend  of  President 

Lincoln's  and  from  his  State,  should  ha 

sentcd  the  bill  which  will  do  bo  much 

oward 

Land  and  education  are  to  be  the  grounds 
of  security  for  the  liberty  of  the  whole  South- 
ern population.  If  they  could  only  perceive 
it,  every  step,  taken  for  the  elevation  of  the 
freedmen  is  an  immense  gain  for  the  Southern 
States  and  for  the  country.  Whatever  devel- 
ops their  self-respect  and  stimulates  them  to 
industry  nnd  thrift  brings  us  all  nearer  to  per- 
manent peace.      Governor  Obr,  of  South  Car- 


.H.jjo.-iiig    : 


the  President's  pol- 
the  tenure  of  the  Sea 
idinen  for  three  years 


at  the  mercy  of  those  who  were  educated  to  re- 
gard him  and  treat  him  as  an  ox  or  a  dog;  if 
ho  knew  rbat  the  power  which  had  given  him 
his  freedom,  and  was  strong  enough  to  main- 


tablv  remain  there.  But  it  is  no  less  true  that 
experienjee  has  proved  the  Southern  white  policy 
upon  the  subject  to  be  intolerable  to  the  peace 


egislaturcs  and 
peeehes  and  corr 
nd  indeed  in  eve 


old  authority.  There  is  a  universal  tendency 
in  the  rn.eiested  section  toward  black  codes, 

But  since  the  method  which  is  utterly  abhor- 
rent to  the  American  principle  has  failed,  why 
not  try  a  policy  founded  upon  that  principle? 
Since  injustice  has  plunged  us  into  war,  why 
not  try  justice  as  a  means  of  keeping  the  peace  ? 

It  is  the  object  of  the  Freedmen's  Bureau  to 
secure  that  treatment.  The  result  can  not  be 
reached  without  vexatious  delays  and  perplexi- 
ties. There  will  be  complaints,  often  well 
founded,  of  the  officers  and  agents  employed. 
There  will  be  friction  nnd  disappointment  of 
many  kinds  in  the  working  of  the  system. 
But  they  will  all  be  slowly  and  constantly 
working  out  toward  justice  and  the  equal  rights 
of  men,  upon  which  foundation  only  can  future 
prosperity  and  union  bo  erected. 


lorted,  he  will  conq 

to 

FBn 

I  ( 

ry  before  next  Maj 

the  empire,  and  M 

.  U :nr> 

inJ 

rnety  days  the  gree 

Ha** 

eHy 

lai'tie-i    army  of  I 

British  courts  are  sentenc 

?en 

ml 

ude, 

and 

d  Centre,  Stephen 

,isaf 

B" 

'«» 

pon  t 

ect  the  Irish  Republic  are 
so  promising  that  they  can  hopefully  run  the 
risk  of  ruining  themselves  and  their  families. 

Iudeed,  the  late  Fenian  performance  in  the 
city  of  New  York  was  so  lamentably  farcical 
that  the  whole  movement  seems  to  have  died 
quietly  iu  ridicule  here,  as  it  ends  more  frag- 


ment of  Irishmen  and  of  the 
of  the  leaders  who  have  sou 
discontent  to  practical  polit 


land  under  the  rule  of  no  higher  wisdom  than 
has  been  displayed  in  the  Fenian  movement. 
The  British  government  of  Ireland  is  not  a  no- 
ble or  humane  story.  No  honorable  English- 
man can  contemplate  it  without  sorrow  and 
shame.  But  bad  as  it  may  have  been,  ungen- 
erous as  it  may  be  now,  it  is  undoubtedly  pref- 


ace England,  sees  that  the  Bn  h  Go 
is  now  fully  aroused,  and  does  not 
to  take  the  most  decisive  measures 
i  revolution  in  Ireland  would  be  for  . 
=h  subject  a  question  of  the  integrit; 
r  of  the  British  empire.  Indeed,  thi: 
m  is  baffled  before  it  fairly  begins. 


lint;  -uiilc- 


the  < 


virtually  decided  

publican.      There    is    still    another  object 
which  is  this— that  while   the   object  of  mo 

amendment  is  to  protect  colored  citizens  In- 
giving  them  the  vote,  the  feeling  of  ea^te  in  the 
unorganized  St?*"*  «  »«  n*™,™  *i.nf  ti.n„  «.«.,i,i 
probably  be  wi 

complete  contr 


the  colored  man  is  represented  to  be 
political  nnd  social  friends  of  Governoi 

but  which  his  conduct  di^uore —  would 
actly  what  the  freedmen  are  doing:  he 
wait  the  action  of  his  friends  before  coi 
himself  to  bis  enemies. 

Governor  Obr  and  the  opponents 
Freedmen's  Bureau  do  not  appear  to 


;i|,ir:il  invc 

stod  and  no  risks 

aken,  and 

onse- 

|l]l'llllv    till 

productive. 

But  still  further,  as  in  th 

mpediment  any  \i 

lero  to  the 

tical  power  by  ev 

- " 

tical  power  has  c 

fruits  of  industry 

.     The  mc 

areigners,  after  a 

short  prob 

ation, 

iniv  he  in, 

urahzed  and  shai 

-•">   »" 

lit'iriuiT'.  : 

ny  considerable  n 

ml.i-r  ■>!   ill 

pop- 

ilatioil  slit. 

Id  be  arbitrarily  excluded  fro 

mpo- 

threatened  to  make  this  exclusion  permanent, 
they  would  be  dissatisfied  and  restless,  their 
claims  would  be  supported  by  an  immense  par- 
ty ;  a  great  agitation  would  ensue,  and  the  in- 
dustrial relations  of  the  region  in  which  that 
population  lived  would  be  lpdicaliy  disturbed 


ly  nnd  in  eligibly.       Tin 


no  wish  to  devote  exclusive  or  disproportioned 
stantly  considered,  but  only  because  this  is  the 
tied  all  other  questions  are  less  difficult. 


steadily  nnd  surely— at  all  events  in  some  cases. 
It  lacks  but  a  few  months  of  twelve  years  since 
the  financial  community  was  paralyzed  by  the 
news  that  the  President  of  the  New  Haven 
Knilroad    Company    had    been   flooding  Wall 


tificates  of  stock, 


fraud,  and  so  high  had  stood  t 
the  criminal,  that  people  at  fir; 
lieve  the  news.     Schuyler  i 


nobility,"  he  was  a 
•n  in  Wall  Street, 

Ul'iive,      11      - 

respected,  a  king  among  railway 

ed,  had  issued 

l  the  New  York 

vo  millions  of  doll 

y  to  an  amount 

i\s,   had   t'uisted 

s  friends  and  acq 

lad  run  away  leaving  no  trace  be- 

first  shock  Wall  S 

reet  turned  its 

to  be  just  to  the  Pr< 


The 


stands,  will  probably 


not.     We  do  not  know,  indeed,  what  ft 
suggestions  the  Committee  may  propose  < 

will  modify  and  control  thiB     n -  — 

that  the  debate  will  La 
mirteethe  feeling  of  the] 

pie  and  obvious  solution  of  the  difficulty— an 


the   Cm 


in    ji    lu.li. 


iMoneyv. 
rfpneti 


spectacle  in  history  than  the  revolution  of  oi 
fathers  in  '76.  But  grand  and  ennobling  i 
that  struggle  was,  it  would  have  been  a  crin 
inal  folly  if  they  had  obeyed  a  mere  vague  sci 
timent,  and  had  not  literally  counted  the  co 
and  scrupulously  weighed  the  chances  of  sm 


IS  THERE  TOO  MUCH  OF  ONE 

SUBJECT?       • 
If  any  body  thinks  that  both  in  Congress 


questions  of  trade  and  methods  of  conciliation. 


development.  There  was  $3,ooo,ooo  of  gen- 
uine stock  of  the  New  Haven  Road,  and 
$'2,000,000  or  more  of  stock  fraudulently  is- 
sued by  Schuyler.  The  stock  had  been  act- 
ive, and  on  the  morning  when  the  fraud  came 
to  light,  there  was  hardly  a  banker  or  broker 
in  New  York  who  did  not  hold  directly  or  in- 
directly some  shares.  How  could  the  so-called 
-juirioii.-  Mode  be  disi  iiij.oiished  from  the  genu- 
ine?    The  brokers  studied   the   subject,    and 


change,  and  of  the  bankers  and  brokers  through- 
out the  conn  try.  They  therefore  summoned 
the  New  Haven  Railroad  Company  to  recog- 


mc  of  the  subordinate  clerks  of  the  Company 
idertook,  by  a  process  never  clearly  explained, 
separate  the  so-called  spurious  stock  from 


Febrttahy  10.  ISfifi.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


the  ^o-cnlled  spurious  ~U"k. 

their  behalf.  'The  Company 
e,  retained  able  counsel  on 
jarcd  for  a  long  fight.     The 

never  since  been  bought  or 

in  thefallofi854.     It  took 

!i  leading  lawyer  at  the  bar 
i  engaged  in  it  at  some  time 
or  or  against  the  Company. 

■or  of  the  brokers.      People 


t,  and  decided  that  as  a  loi 
on  the  Company,  whieh  1 


i  guilty  of  no 

;nu    pns<ibdirv 

red.     It  had  i 


dragged  i 
Every  te 


r  several  years. 

of  the  Company  \vh 


This 


l  Corn 


lent  money  to  Schuyler  on  the  so-called  spu- 
rious stock.  He  had  examined  the  stock  before 
he  lent  his  money,  and  had  proved  the  certifi- 
cates correct.  He  was  not  now  willing  to  ad- 
mit that  they  were  otherwise.  The  adverse 
judgment  did  not  dismay  him,  If  the  Com- 
pany had  patience,  so  had  he.  If  they  had  n 
long  purse,  so  had  he.      If  they  could  fee  able 


■■■•    , 


'    C-ynjiUllv';: 


work  in  this  single  case),  so  could  he.  He  r 
jected  the  proffered  compromise  with  derisio 
and  bade  his  lawyers  appeal,  and  prosecute  tl 
appeal  with  vigor.  Encouraged  by  his  exan 
pie,  other  victims  of  the  fraud  declined  to  a 
1  appealed  their  cus< 


ich  are  so  profitable  to  lawyers  a 
kening  to  needy  seekers  after  ju 
s  no  doubt  but  the  Company  basi 
i  great  part  upon  the  probable  dee 


ng  them  to  accept  the  pro; 
or  defeating  them  altoget 

so  'twas  eaid),  with  a  ion 
,  and  a  habit  of  being  das 
from  time  to  time.     Th- 


!y  prayed 

ir  rebut  less  prosecutor. 
e  not  heard.     The  Corn- 
On  the  contrary,  in  spiie 
t  horses,  and  upsets,   he 


very  moment  the  Company  expected  i 


,\].!jeaU 
riL-aiust  tl 
churned,  v 


suit  to  judgment  in  the  Court  of 

nil  won  it— obtaining  a  decision 
Company  for  the  whole  amount 

th  eleven  years'  interest  and  costs. 

something  quite  refreshing  in  the 
statement  published  by  the  Board  of  Directors 
in  which,  after  reiterating  their  opinion  that 
the  judgment  is  unjust,  they  offer  for  sale 
$2,000,000  of  new  stock  in  order  to  meet  the 
claims  of  the  Commodore  and  his  faithful  ad- 
herents. No  reliable  statement  has  been  pub- 
lished of  the  amount  of  money  paid— directly 
or  in  the  shape  of  stock— to  the  parties  who 
accepted  the  compromise  three  or  four  years 


responsible  for  the  frauds  of  its  agent. 

A  healthy  public  sentiment  has  thanked  Mr. 
A.  T.  Stewart  for  baring  promptly  preferred 
a  complaint  against  a  newspaper  which  had 
seemed  to  charge  him  with  improper  conduct 
in  private  life.  And  a  like  tribute  is  duo  to 
Commodore  VAXBERBttT  for  baring  had  the 


of  a  wealthy  cone 


ANOTHER  SPANISH  REVOLUTION. 
While  Spain  is  apparently  threatening  Chili, 
she  suddenly  finds  herself' forced  to  look  at 
home.  General  Prim,  the  officer  who  with- 
drew from  the  Mexican  invasion  during  oui 
late  war,  and  who  thereby  made  his  name 
pleasant  in  our  ears,  after  passing  privsueh 
through  Europe  for  several  months,  and  evi- 
dently proposing  a  movement,  returned  to 
Madrid,  lived  quietly  in  his  own  house  under 
the  eyes  of  Marshal  O'Donjjell,  his  rival,  and 
one  day,  when  the  Marshal  sent  some  soldiers 
to  arrest  him,  General  Prim's  servants  replied 

out  shooting;  grinned  and  bowed;  and  the 
next  day  Prim  appeared  in  arms  at  the  head 
"I  jMn  of  the  army. 

Of  course  it  is  impossible  to  know  much  of 

probable   success  of  l 


The  official  dispatches  announced  as  soon  as 
the  rebellion  began  that  it  was  all  over.  The 
royal  troops  held  all  the  mountain  passes. 
Three  columns  were  bearing  down  upon  the 
insurgents;  and,  dismayed  and  demoralized, 
Prim  and  his  adherents  were  straggling  away 
toward  Portugal.  Official  bulletins,  however, 
express  official  desires  rather  than  facts.    Later 

of  the  disturbed  condition  of  Catalonia  and 
Aragon.  It  is  the  old  story,  and  certainly  no- 
thing can  be  more  deploi 


1  who  will  truly  help  their 


EDUCATION  OF  THE  FREEDMEN. 
"The  Freedmen,"  said  our  martyr  Presi- 
dent, "aretheWardsoftheNation."  "Yes," 
replied  Mr.  Stanton,  ""Wards  in  Chancery." 
What  is  our  duty  to  them  as  their  guardians? 
Clearly,  to  clothe  them  if  they 
teach  them  if  they  are  ignorant ; 
if  they  are  sick ;  and  to  adopt  them  if  they  are 
homeless  and  motherless.  They  have  been 
slaves,  war  mads  them  frecdmen,  and  peace 
must  make  them  freemen.  They  mnst  be 
shielded  from  unjust  laws  and  unkindly  preju- 
dices; they  must  he  instructed  in  the  tme 
principles  of  social  order  and  democratic  goy- 

place  by-and-by  in  the  great  army  of  voters  as 
lately  they  filled  up  the  ranks  in  the  great 
army  of  fighters.  The  superstitions,  the  rices, 
the  untlirifrincs,  the  loitering  and  indolent 
habits  which  slavery  foisted  on  the  whites  and 
blacks  alike,  who  were  cursed  by  its  presence 
in  their  midst,  must  be  dispelled  and  supplant- 
ed by  all  the  traits  and  virtues  of  a  truly  Chris- 

Tho  North,  that  liberated  the  slave,  has  not 
been  remiss  in  its  duty  to  the  freedman.     The 

the  advancing  army.  Willson's  Headers  have 
followed  Grant's  soldiers  every  where.  Many 
of  the  colored  troops  on  the  march  had  primers 
in  their  boxes  and  primers  in  their  pockets. 
They  were  namesakes,  but  not  of  the  same 
family,  Charleston  had  not  been  captured 
more  than  a  week  before  the  schools  for  freed- 


proposed  now  to  educi 


Lot  1 


the  J 


ture.  by  educating  all  men 

The  National  Freedmen's  Relief  Associatio 
of  New  York— of  which  FuvNeisti^MUiLSiiAi 
is  President  and  Joseph  11.  Collins  Treasure 

relieving  the  wants  and  dispelling  the  ignt 
ranee  of  the  freedman.  It  lias  expended  di 
ing  the  last  four  years  three  quarters  of  a  mi  I 

ion  ol  dollars  111  clothing  the  naked;   in  estal 


in  distributing  s 
schools.  They  have  over  two  hundred  teach- 
ers in  the  South  at  this  time.  Thoy  support 
orphan  homes  in  Florida  and  South  Carolina. 
They  teach  ton  thousand  children,  and  largo 


sliant  and  self-supporting.  They  appeal  lor 
dditional  aid.  There  aro  but  a  thousand 
mchcrs  for  frecdmen  in  all  tho  Southern 
tates;  whereas  twenty  thousand  could  find 
umc.lnite  employment.  The  National  Relief 
.ssochitiou  could  find' pupils  for  5000.  It  has 
at  200.  As  the  work  is  a  good  and  great 
no,  and  as  the  officers  of  this  Society  are 


of  New  York, 
nincnd  their  appeal  to  tho 


DOMESTIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

Ink  late  □  mlr  Itl     II    (  ,  1 


R  to  Q  or  B  would  probably 
Bliould  bo  inclined  to  give 


;■,:  -    ' 


f  t'.Utvn.      Mr.  Stevrti. 


In  Ml,,  -.■mtr,  Mr.  Wil^n  proposed  nn  nmpndme 


1  $1000  ;  3rf.  That  the  Secretary  of  War  mi 

'  |"'''-''1;1""  ^"'1   i. ni|.;.  o    :    17,.  Tli-it  tl..-  r. 


■■.  Trumbull  r|"4,.-  »l  l.i„-U tin-  hill 

roiWrii.'M.ni,    liio  .|iio*f'i.ii]    licfaiv    tho    Ih-n."-    l..-m-'    tho 


I I 


.     i-Hlh.T    I, Villi, ,    ,-i   III-     I!- .11X11    r.,H,.    I„     I     I,,,.-.   I,, 

.1  in. id.  .■.■HtM.KT.t  in  Hi-  P'-mi  vlv.nin  nil  R-. 


Iho  Spi.nih  l..rnli"ii,  liiiviriiiiliiirp.-.l  tloil 


On  tho  evening  of  January  20  tho  a\m>:  <!■'  la 
crime  of  the  New  York  City  aristocracy  exhibited 
in  its  characteristic  manner  the  Christians  aliment 
of  charity.  The  Nursery  and  Child's  Hospital  were 
in  need  of  funds,  and  the  bon  ton  was  eager  for  ex- 
citement, and  to  satisfy  bolh  these  demands  nt  one 
and  the  eamo  time,  it  was  determined  to  give  a 
ltuikI  ball,  the  nroeeeds  of  wlm.li  should  he  devoted 


I  splendor  of  the  whole 
,  baffle  description.    We 


tended  by  Mr.  Ktsgsi 
magnificent  appearand 
splendid  painted  cano 


UAUPER'S  WEEKLY. 


SIONQB   ETHARDO   O.N   THE, 
SPIRAL   FLANK. 

On-e  of  the  most  attractive  features 
of  the  entertainments  at  the  Crystal 
Piilaee  in  London  i>  iln-  Tn-rfwnn.n.r,. 
of  .si-nnr  Hh.mlo.  J  Lis  «..n-k-rfni 
gymuaBt,  who  Ian  native  of  Italy,  na- 
eend.'  a  !oij,i  '|iiiiil  platform  by  pro- 
pelling ii|.   tlit-    narrow    path    a    large 

ball   on    ulurh   hi'   -I  mds  mid   Oil   whirl, 

hi-  immciliiil.'ly  descends  liy  the   faun- 


D.IMllL'l,   who   OXl 


I  description.      Italian    i 


t  tho  Crystal 

I'ahce  ili-|-.l.iy.il  no  p:iri  ienlar  an-.icty 
foi"  lliv  p.  rlt-i  m.-r'i  ml'.-h  ,  llmn-h  tin  V 
kward  in  applauding  him 


small  circular  platform  a 
The  globo  on  which  till 


[February  10,  1866. 


?# 


Captain  Horatio  Nklsos,  of  the 
;,';-'„.,  S.r,  „as  l.urn  ill  1826,  in  New 
York  ciiy.       He  in  a  son  of  Captain 


lving  in  a  positio 

i   in   nliich  no 

master  would   pla 

ce  her,  and  he 

mined  lo  liCLive'tinse toller.    Ipon 

•  so  lie  found  that  s 

IC  lv:l*  |I,ol-U11- 

Mtrrimac,  tbotshi 

olheCoilipanv,  In 

S   ill    all    140 

at  Ton   Eovnl. 

seem,  after  (tomg 

o  in.  ch  out  of 

amilv  mi  loini.k-  lli!l.     It  i.,  built  of  grnn- 
t  eight   ['-jot  Ion-   inn)  five  feet    wide  nt  tho 

i  Hag-dinpcd  urn  nmilo  of  bronze.      On  tho 
;  is  the  inscription  in 
James  S.  Wawwomii, 
t!..   Dante  of  tlio  Wllderneis, 
la  an  emblematic  design  in 


,-Ui:    1   J'lIAl  in,    n\     HU.     :I'!J'AL    l'LA 


The  WiMfiii,.-. 


THE  NEW  STEANSIIIP  "RISING  STAR.", 

The  now  steamship  Jtising  Star,  of  which  we 
give  an  illustration  on  pago  93,  is  one  of  tho  larg- 
csl  and  finest  ever  built  in  this  country.     She 'is 


£    AT   THE   CRV.-W-AL   PAIACE,  LONDON. 

thirty-two  bundled  t»ns   burden,  three  h 

a  nil  lifted  i  feet  in  length,  foity-fonr  feet  bre; 
liraii^thirly-une  feel  six  inelies  depth  of  ho 

of  any  tiling  before  tailing  I 


|.1\    eithe)   troiu 
nt*  Port  Royal  i 

thiu.l    t^  Captain  Ni  i  su.\   it-  uppic.val 

of  hi'  -I--11C1.IU-  aefioj],      Ca    fain   Nfl- 

Coiopii-h.  il    '■i:ip-n:aMei-.s   of   thiseoun- 


^;ft^',:';','1'.'.:. 


February  10,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY 


INSIDE. 

A  CHEONICLB  OF  SECESSION. 


v.  lien  ir   ii:.vl   h.-eom  ■  a   ill  ...i-  Mid 

ficult  unci  dangerous,  wiili  a  step  firm  and  sure 


where  multitudes 

This  most  fortunate  misfortune. 
ficial  blunder,  happened  on  this  wise  : 

Some  four  or  live  year-  b.'foro  Secession  was 
over  regarded  as  a  possibility  outride  the  Si  iv 
lines  of  South  Carolina,  a  great  political  im 
ment  took  place  tlnoui-hom  th-  United  State-  — 
a  movement  ns  sudden,  as  unexpected,  and,  it 
may  be  added,  as  much  underground,   too,  as 


erville,  of  something  new  and 
the  political  world.  To  the  people  of  Soinor- 
ville  it  was,  however,  a  something  so  little  un- 
derstood, and  so  very  far  away,  that  no  one  felt 


hinted  at  in  ihe  papers  wirh  a  scornful 
and  there,  began  m  }■■■  more  fully  am 
ly  and  respectfully  alluded  to.     Each 


sudden  and  amazing 


tions  here  and  tl 
Idly.     Ovcnvheli 

swept  away   w 


■   hmv   to   take   pnsse>si   i: 


of  the  new  party,  si 
his  ancient  enemy.  But  while  Whig  and  Dem- 
ocrat thus  schemed  and  planned  the  new  move- 
ment swept  them,  for  the  time,  both  aside  from 
its  onward  course. 

Sorrierville  was  very  far  from  being  at  the  first 
of  things;  but  even  Somerville  became  finally 
and  deeply  interested  in   this  new  thing  mvi  i 


guidance. 
tongue  an 


was  iviiuii'.;  to  see.     Wc'l.- 


T— friends    wailing    afraid    to  *■■■;. 

'ter  him  who  had  so  ofien  led  them  on  to 

,  donblv  afraid  to  place  themselves  in  p..s. 

l  to  that  trenchant  pen  ;  enema--. 

I  Lamurn  was  pledged  against 

it ;   then,  and  nut  till  then,  could  they  he  eertae: 
the  organization  was  a  thing  right  and  good. 

At  last  Lamum  spoke.  A  thunder-peal  was 
not  more  distinct,  a  lightning  flash  not  more  di- 
rect and  destructive.  The  n-/w 
wrong,   unprincipled,  detestable 


Sroni  that  moment  Lam- 
:eadily  and  terribly  upon 

nudoned  and  denounced 


to,  and  henceforth  defend 

Lamum   never  hiioed 

course  in  those   davs,  bn 

•'"■vl  :if:c-vw;trd.      Emm  I 


the  new  party  first  rose  into  notice,  it  was  only 
to  ascertain  whether  that  party  could  in  any  way 
hasten  the  destruction  of  the  Union ;  could  by 
any  possibility  be  so  wrought  by  main  force  as 
to  be  a  new  and  effective  engine  to  that  glorious 
end.  Had  Lamum  only  been  satisfied  on  this 
point  he  would  have  gone  into  it  with  all  his — 
we  will  not  say .««/,  the  word  does  not  apply  to 


h  ivmr;    "i\( 


Linon  — that  was  the  thought,  the  passion,  the 
cud  and  aim  of  his  life.     He  had  cherished  it 

most  intimate  friend.  He  had  attended  years 
tigo  the  Nashville  Convention   to  plan   toward 

thi-  end,  when  alino-t  universal  contempt  at- 
ouid-d  the  M..j».  l'aiiciitly,  hopefully,  unwenry- 
ingty  had  he  toiled  in=this  one  direction.  What 
amazing  force  it  gives  a  man,  the  abandoning 
one's  self  to  one  purpose  in  life! 

Had  Europe  known,  had  this  continent  known, 
how  completely  the  destruction  of  tlie  Union  had 
been  for  long  years  the  one  fixed  purpose  in  life 
of  a  few  able  men  at  the  South,  pledged  heart 
and   mind  i.)  thi-  thin:.;,   Kin'ope  ami  this   cunti- 


nianiaa'  had  already  informed  ii 

"You  come  down  and  see,"  replied  the  lawyer. 

quiringly,  even  doubtfully,  at  bis  friend,  who 
had  turned  away  to  search  for  really  nothing 
whatever  among  the  pigcon-Jiolcs  of  his  desk. 

locked  the  door  and  laid  his  hat  upon  the  table. 
"  I  suppose  I  know  what  you  nrc  speaking  of," 


sation  with  you  just  no\ 

and  upon  that  subject." 

The  lawyer  took  his 

eat,  though  it  was  evi- 

dent  he  had  much  rathe 

r  have,  waived  the  whole 

"Mr.  Brooks,"  said  t 

he  young  minister,  "you 

already  know  how  I  an 

situated — young,  incx- 

perienced,  aiming  to  ef 

cct  good  here  in  Somcr- 

ville,  if  it  please  God. 

preacher  of  the  Gospel 

Tell  me  frankly  as  a  friend,  as  an  officer  of  our 

*'  Yes,  I  do,"  replied 

lie  lawyer.     It  was  not 

jy  that  table  those  two 

men  knew  perfectly  wcl 

each  and  both  of  them, 

I  liar  tlicv  ought  to  have 

nothing  whatever  to  do 

with  the  new  party.     Guy  Brooks,  burly,  open- 

hearted,  open-handed, 

rank-spoken  man  that 

organization  whatever  with  whose  whole  plan 
and  purpose  lie  was  not  thoroughly  acquainted. 
His  pustor,  too,  knew,  just  as  well,  that,  as  a 
minister  of  the  Gospel,  he  most  assuredly  had  no 
hi.-ine-j  in  n.nv  mi.  h  all'iir  whatever.  It  yuii 
had  asked  him,  "Would  an  Apostle  have  en- 
rolled himself  a  member  of  any  such  party--  of 
any  party  at  all?"  the  "No,  Sir I"  would  have 
sprung  spontaneously  to  his  lips.  "  Would  Whit- 
field, Wesley,  Hcbcr,  Henry  Marty n,  any 
of  the  Gospel,  go  ' 


i  such  a  thin-/  ' 


"  No, 

reply.  From  the  first  something  within  him 
U.Vl.i-l  t  up  a  r  rpctnal  No!  at  the  very  pu-i 
bility  of  his  becoming  an  initiate  in  the  mysteri- 
ous Order  And  yet  both  lietuid  his  fiiciid  per- 
sisted, non»*  the  less,  in  doing  what  all  tlio  time 
they  knew  well   they  ought  to  have  carefully 


:  of  God.     From 


ring  spokeo  wiyiin  1 


f  advice  about  things  better  known  to  them  than 
i  himself.  It  was  an  amiable  weakness,  and  a 
isitive  weakness  if  it   "as  amiable.     On' the 


God  within  him  is  guide 


that,  who  is  himself  »  >,d'c 


"Wo  ought— at  least, 

Mr.  Arthur  to  Guy  Brook 
"Oh,  I  don't  know!"  r- 


Brooks  recognized,  and  with 
seated  among  tlie  members  o 
special   meeting  for  the  purpos 

is,  the  young  minister  had' Ir 
Guy  Brooks  wa-  that  night  to  I 
an  important  office.     The  vote 


■  ■;'1-1'  "i  friendship,  ami  yet  I  am  so  held 

Why  should  it  be  so?" 

y  it  was  nil  so  ordered  he  understood  por- 

-  H'cfuiorof  KnnwNoihi,,.  Um  luollaand- 
to  hnn  .several  wholesome  truth-.  He 
■d  that  a  great  fiolitical  movement  might 
r  ri-c  and  as  swiftly  case.  I!0  learned 
iu  h  a  movement  might,  at  one  hour,  nnm- 
1  millions  ol'  adherents,  and  ai  anoiher  aft- 


anged  miosis  strong 
icd  to  work  exactly 

ow  Nothinpism  left 


rn,  raged  over 

I'rnni    .sweeping 
irst  experience 

■  ter.      And  the 


early  one  morning,  soon  after  the 
Brooks  entered  the  study  of  his 


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[February  10, 


iiu.l  leaned 


tnhlo  llcfcrc  his  friend,   :   partso.the  Stale.  n.--l-  «eeks  ae-o,  r 


Ally  Inrge  frame — tin 


nd  officer  of  »  yoniif:  and 


closely  together.      The 


gentleness  and  elevi 


II  mwycr.  noiinvmn, 
side,  learned  the  nmt 
of  Know  Noihingism, 


nil.    JSut  whore,  did  yon  got  it?1 


I  I  ■  ■      t      ■':,     '■      ..I  •     'li        ... 

l\wt..,nVe,-<a,.li,,e  Kenlm-kiml.  "ill,. 
"It  was  linr.lly  w.irih   yimr   while," 


nd  he  opened  the  poster  rs  ho  stoc 
it  in  n  powerful  and  earnest  voice. 


v  -eci-dod?     Thai  >I i — i  —  i] -|.i  has  p...l.al.li 

ed?     That  the  stnim  is  jn~t  rising  v.lmi 
wee,,  over  nil  the  Sontheni  Stales?    What 


'•And  who  are  they?  Look 
L.imnm,  first  and  foremost;  Colon 
Judge  Jones,  who  owes  his  late  election  to  Lai 


Colonel  Juggins  will  ride 
countrv;  Dr.  Ginnis:  Alf  l'i 
neni    ;   lJoh  Wither-;  and  the  1 


uC':::z;. 


There 

.Mr.  Kill,."  ami  R'imon." 

"May  God  forbid !"  ejaculated  the  ministei 
!'.-i ■■.(.■inly,  ami  sonn.-wliat  anxiously. 

"  He  has  forbidden,  ho  docs  forbid  I  But  yo 
do  not  estimate  the  thing  right.  Perhaps  only 
a  dozen  or  two  of  the  professional  politicians 
v.ill  iii'X-t  there  really  detcmrii 
inn  will  U  called  tJ  the  Chai 


ng  your  books.     Brother  Barker  will  open 

,  a  long  and  f.-rvom  prayer.     His  whole  do- 
nation at  the  Soml,  will  identify  it-clf,  has 


i  do?" 


••  And  what  would  \.        !  -  ?  could  y< 

"Do?     I  would  run  up  the  flag  of  J 

try,  rnlly  around   it   by  proclamation   every  true 

man  in  (ho  State,  and  defy  the  devil  of  Dis- 

Sir,  three-fourths  of  the  voters  of  the  State  would 
stand  by  mo  to   the  death.     Lamum  and  his 

nrc  uttcrlv  distinct  from  the  people  in  thisjvhole 
matter.  The  politicians  have  a  long-cherished 
hatred  against  the  North  burning  in  their  bo- 
soms ;  they  want  plunder  and  power.     The  peo- 

Ri^wnnr^^Vpir'riphTmd  peace.  TeUn 

of  the  politicians.  Ami  while  this  golden,  glori- 
ous moment  is  passing  nway  never  to  return, 
there  they  sit  at  the  capital  of  the  State,  the 


on  rf«i\    have  at   Inisl   setr 

"">"K    " '    ''"■    Srate. 

lo,„l!  ImUnlc-!  l.il.an 
the  cans,-  otlMit  and  I 
I    wv    1..-J.1    di-m    fis  Arrvi 


I'liwilliu 


if  that  should  paralyze  us  in 
Only  run  up  the  flag  of  our 

f  traitor;    only  a  firm  front 
for  this  next   golden   month, 

And   the  lawyer  walked  the 


Tin-    lawyer's  head  sunk  gloomily  i 
"  Yon  draw  a  (■■iriMe  ]  inure,"  cu,]  t.t 


and  nbrnad,  and  of  linii  millions  of  income. 
Why,  Sir,  this  is  a  Chri-iian  land  !  I  can  not 
for  a  moment  believe  it  is  to  be  given  up  to  dis- 
ruption and  ruin.     I  would  as  soon  expect  the 

"Go  out?"  osked  the  lawyer.  "Well,  and 
'  the  sun  shall  be  turned  into  sackcloth'— I  don't 
remember  the  rest  of  the  passage— 'the  moon 


will  bo  introduced  and 
i  part  of  Somerville  will 
1%  »  a 


he  latter  days,"  said 
i  of  superior  theologi 

ink,  can  not  bring  r 


body  of  sober,  sensible.  Christian  men  who  make 
up  tin,  great  country?  Or,  if  that  is  not  strong 
■"do* ui  ima  in°  IhTa  m"'  "  pitying  Sm1^' 
too  powerful  for  the  Almighty?  For  my  part, 
i  he  more  I  think  of  it  the  more  composed  I  feel. 
War?     Nonsense!" 

"God  often  nses  bad  men  to  accomplish  his 
greatest  purposes,"  said  the  lawyer.     "As  to 


Almighty  has  a  spi 
people— a  special  i 
depend  on  it  no  ai 


the  good  men  just  now!  I  declare  it  does 
k  like  the  hand  of  the  Almi-hiv,  thmir:b. 
wcver!  It  is  the  ruin  of  mv  native  South, 
1  by  the  rash  hands  of  the  South  itself,  that  I 
r.  '  However,  I  nm  glad  to  find  we  think  and 


iiid  who  may  that  be?"  asked  the  minister, 
g  his  face  suddenly  bum  as  he  spoke. 
Jot  the  least  use  to  inform  you,"  said  the 
•v  with  a  smile,  and  closing 'the  door  after 


THE  WARRANTEE  DEED. 


PHILIP  FALKLAND'S  STORY. 


i  Hank  had  been 
jble  and  Smash 


nil  the  fiirnitme  with  it,  and  all  our  earthly 
packed  away  in  trunk*  stamlin.. 
ready  corded  in  the  hnll  for  the  morrow's  flitting, 

all  hoys,  sitting  sadly  over  the  fire,  and  sighed  out: 
"Well,  I'm  glad  there  are  no  girls  among  you  : 
men  can  make  their  own  way  in  the  world,  givo 
Lhem  half  a  chance.  Maybe  "it  will  be  the  Lord's 
will  that  I  shoidd  go  too;  and  lion-  could  I  leave 
young  lasses?  There's  Eben  half  a  doctor  now — 
and  learning  every  day ;  and  Samuel  with  good 
pro- poet-,  before  him— if  the  ironmongery  isn't  quite 
what  we'd  have  chosen;  and  Phil"  — there  she 
stopped  and  reddened,  and  said,  quickly— "  Phil's 
but  young  vet.  and  ha-  c-lder  brothers." 

I  knew  what  she  meant  right  well:  why  her  face 
flashed  and  her  lip  quivered.  And  when  Eben  had 
taken  bis  light  and  gone  up  stairs  to  bed,  and  Sam- 
uel, withakhsachild  might  have  given  his  mother, 


about  me,  mother,"  I  said, 
i  another  flush,  and  said, 


ill  he  a  doctor  in  good  practice  some 
1  will  succeed  and  make  friends  and 
t  what  can  Phil  do  but  drag  his  broth- 


r  thought  the  half  ot  ih:il,">he  -aid.      •-  Ilia.-. 

ior-.  t-huuld  ,'lv.uy-  lu-lp  ihc  younger." 

\nd  how  much  younger  am  I  than  they?"  I 


.oixlou-  on  mv  fcoro.     You  art 

■  \V,I1,  Phil,"  said  mother, 

we  have  tried— your  |>of.ri".ith..j 

easy  for  you,  and  it  -cents  ho  t 


"No,  Phil,"  paid  mother.      "  They  can  walk 
run.     They  hardly  used  the  carriage  when  we  bad 
it,  and  you  always  rode,  ell  her  in  that  or  on  horsc- 


ai-|.rt-  and  rn-.-y  t- 


in  that  way,  and  because— to  tell  the  truth  to  m\ 
own  mother— I  feel  certain  I  don't  daub.     Sly  pic- 
tures are  not  what  thev  ought  to  be.     I  have  even 
thing  to  learn,  but  I  feel  what  I  can  not  do,  and  I'm 
a  rtaiii  Mime  day  to  do  something." 

Mother  looked  at  me  as  though  I  were  a  pet 
child  who  had  proposed  some  absurd  attempt,  am 
-aid.  in  a  humoring  voice, 

"Yes,  dear,  of  course  you  can.     It  will  amuse 

-age  to  my  pretty  bedcha 

'Only  wait  here  awhile.' 
om  and  along  a  little  pas- 
mber  and  brought  out  my 

Mother  put  on  ber  gla 
ndulgently.  But  in  a 
the  pieces'  of  millboard 
sparkle.     And  at  last  she 

"They're  tit  to  frame 
They  are,  Phil!      Ialwaj 

sses  and  prepared  to  look 

over,  her  eyes  began  to 

almost  screamed, 

and  put  in  an  exhibition 

e,ht  as  she  spoke  ;  nnd 

ei.uld  have  er 

v  Letter  than  s 

..1   artist. 

lot  this  was  crude,  and 

nity  to  point  out  these 

nhile  -he 

ches  with  her 

d  her  lips  a-lremhle. 

After  a  while,  when  s 

"  So  vou  like  them,  m 

"Likethem!    Oh,  Phi 

r.    "And 

think  how  good  God  is 

all  the  while. 

So  often 

And  at)  I  plodded  wearily  ii  to  my  chamber  I 
mid  not  help  thinking  of  the  point  my  life. turned 
ion.  I  could  not  help  si^hiiar  a  litib  heavily  to 
duk,  afi  rail,  Imu  dad  l  should  be  to  be  strong 
id  active,  like  Eben  and  Sam. 

I  bud  not  always  been  lame.  It  was  not  until  I 
as  fourteen  that,  as  I  sat  sketching  the  vessels  on 
le  Hudson  one  afternoon,  I  spied  a  little  girl,  a 


ih.il  I  had  barely  ,r:„  h.-.l  it,.,  -pet  %vh,m  — 
ter  — vou  have  ^in— c<\  the  wlmlo  a|r<>a 
saved' the   child.     She  bad,  they  said,  i 


1  was  so  glad  of  tha 


me,  had  ^pokmi 
•  little  L-irl    who 


..nd  bad  forbidden  her  to  come  near  the  house  again. 
They  were  strangers,  and  had  left  the  place  since 

I'm  sure  mother  hated  the  very  memory  of  the 
child ;  but  I  always  felt  tender  toward  her— some- 
thing as  a  mother  may  to  the  child  who  owes  its 


the  others.  But  it  parsed  better  thai 
for  all  of  us.  Mother  hid  her  face  in 
chief— Eben  sighed,  and  Sam's  voice 
hut  that  was  all.  After  we  were  in 
my  band  cold  and  clammy,  and  mv 
fearfully  from  the  excitement  I  hac 
aware  of;  hut  I  had  given  no  sign  of 


Even  I  was  busy,  for  the  f 


;chcs  had  been  she 
i  ho'fl  got  It  In  hi 


Febwamt  10,  18fi6.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


cried,  "  You  may  turn  i 


easel  and  pallet  and  mi 


9  small  salary  well,  I   painted  and 

thasers  and  sitters. 

slow  in  coming;  but  daguerreotypes 

young  artist  who  would  paint  cbeap- 


I  paint  d  her  a*  she  lay,  a  beautiful  piece  o1 
irble,  on  her  pillow,  and  my  limey  helped  me  t 
?  life-like  glow  ,jii  the  cheek  ami  the  radiance  u 


in  !"  it  opened,  .and  a  girl  of  seven- 
i  deep  mourning,  entered.  It  was 
ie  when  she  said,  "lam  Mr.  Har- 


lips  of  strangers 

before,  and  tried 

let  her. 

■r  those  strange, 


\  I  had  never  so  longed 
-k.  When  the  evening 
r  the  sky  I  laid  my  brush 


"  If  you  are  as  weary  as  sitters  usually  are,  you 
.Till  ho*  glad  to  hear  that  I  have  done  for  to  day, 
\Iiss  Hargrave." 

She  answered:  "I  am  not  tired  in  the -least;" 
md  came  around  my  easel  to  look  at  the  picture. 

"It  is  like  mamma,"  she  said.  "How  could 
i'on,  who  never  knew  her,  paint  so  good  a  likeness? 
than 


again.     In  i 


id  Ihen,  as  she  was  guiag,  saw  her 
knowing  that  we  should  ever  meet 

Margrave  had  spoken  of  returning 
to  England— his  native  place— and  of  taking  his 
daughter  with  him.     The  pictu 


had  i 


either  father  or  daughter. 

Yet,  anain  and  again  th-  haunting  memory  of 
those  eyes  seemed  to  nam  me  that  we  were  not  to 
part  thus.  And  when  a  month  afterward  my  door 
opened  and  Mr.  !lavg;ave  entered  wi'.h  hi-  daugh- 
ter on  his  arm,  I  felt  no  surprise  at  their  appeai- 


,  this 


i,  to  paint  a  portrait  ot 
nail  one,  which  her  fa- 
i  his  journey.     "For  I 


until  I  feel  that  the  old  house  yonder  may  ue  uvea. 

in  a-nin,  ami  .!•■■<--!■:>  will   keep  il   home-like  for  ine. 

"  I  had  rather  live  there  than  in  any  other  place," 
said  Jessie.  "  I  can  remember  poor  mamma  bet- 
t?r,  I  think,  with  things  she  has  touched  about  me ; 
but  the  doctors  Bay  papa  must  go.  And  he  says  I 
should  bB  a  trouble  to  him." 

The  beautiful  eyes  filled  with  tears  that  I  longed 
to  kiss  away.  And  she  turned  hastily  to  a  port- 
folio which  lay  open  on  the  table.  While  my  mo- 
ther and  Mr.  Hargrave  conversed  I  made  my  way 
across  the  room  and  stood  beside  her.  And  we 
looked  over  the  pictures  together,  and  I  answered 
her  questions  and  turned  the  sketches  over  for  her. 

At  last  we  came  to  a  child's  drawing-hock.  A 
common  thing,  much  dog-cared,  and  she  picked  it 

"I  wish  you  would  not  look  at  that,"  I  said. 
"It  is  a  sclm'ol-hov's  handiwork.     Nothing  more." 


said  ;  "  I  should  value 

furled  the  leaves. 

There  were  caricatui 


.if  lithographs,  and,  at  last,  - 
3.     The  one  I  had  been  at  wr 

on  the  grass,  but  Miss  Hargra' 


I  said.     She  gave  a  HI 

"Papa,"  she  said, 

the  father  gazed  upon 


e  place,  Miss  Hargrave, 


I  that  place,"**  said, 
lot  finish  the  Bketch  V 


'"Take 


1  do.     May.  I 


onor  it."     But  I  did  not  tell  her  why  the  sketch 
as  not  finished. 

The  little  book  was  in  a  pretty  reticule  she  car- 
ed when  she  left  me.  And  the  next  day  she  camo 
>  sit  for  me.  Again  I  looked  at  will  into'the  depths 
f  those  glorious  eyes.  Again  I  marked  the  deli- 
i  coloring,  the   billowy 


drawing-lessons,  and  that  1  had  been  chosen  for 
her  readier. 

"  If  you  will  do  me  the  favor  of  taking  a  pupil," 
said  the  courtly  father,  never  guessing  that  the  re- 
quest had  given  me  a  little  glimpse  of  paradise. 

"Could  she  learn  something  in  a  year?  You 
think  so  ?  Then  for  a  year  you  shall  try  to  make 
an  artist  of  my  little  girl,  though  I  doubt  her  tal- 


[    gahed  ihe  euti-c"   of  .T.^-io.    [largiave'-. 


I   guidne 


her  pencil.  They  were  the  happiest  mo 
I  knew,  for  I  was  then  alone  with  her.  But  we 
saw  each  other  often  at  other  times.  A  grim  old 
aunt  presided  over  her  home,  but  Jessie  often  came 
to  mother  for  advice  or  comfort.  She  grew  inti- 
mate with  all  the  family,  chatted  with  Eben  and 
laughed  with  merry  Sam,  and  saw  every  Bketch  I 


tell ;  but  one  thing  troubled  me.  Sometimes,  when 
she  thought  I  did  not  see  her,  I  caught  her  looking 
at  me  in  the  strangest  way.     The  *    * 


side.  Always  ready  to  walk  with  her  and  her  litth 
cousin  Madge,  who  had  come  to  live  with  her 
Never  tired  of  hearing  them  sing  duets,  and  per 
petually  "running  over"  with  a  book  or  a  ran 
flower,  or  on  some  excuse  or  o'her.     So  plainly  i 


She  pitied  me  so,  you  see;  1-saw  thai,  a  ml  d 
hard  to  he  piled  only,  where  I  longed  for  love. 

heart ;  and  because  of  that  was  kind  to  me. 
Often,  when  we  walked  out  together,  she  w< 

time  I  have  seen  tokens  of  her  remembrance  th 
was  different  from  the  others  in  her  si-ferly  wa 
litlni"-:  for  my  comfort.     Yes,  ahe  1 


Wh.n  1 


>nce  felt  sure  of  this,  I  sa: 
selfish,  Philip  Falkland; 


,le--ie  had  !■ 


a  blight  upon  their  pleasant  interchange  of  talk  and 
look  I  played  a  part;  pretended  to  be  surly;  re- 
fused to  join  their  walks  ;  shut  myself  in  my  studio 
when  they  were  all  together  in  our  little  parlor,  and 
hoped  at  least  to  make  the  handsome"pair  less  tender 
of  me.  And  I  prayed  earnestly,  Heaven  knows, 
that  I  might  never  feel  angrilv  jealous  of  my  broth- 
er ;  kind,  quiet  Eben,  who  would  have  cut  his  right 
hand  off  rather  than  do  me  harm. 

Yet  sadly  jealous  I  must  be  ;  and  once,  when  the 
.:,:::....  -  ,■■:■:■  ;mvw i iuj  l  il-ht.  they  had  planned 
a  quiet  little  picnic.  Onlv  mother,  Madge,  and 
Jessie,  and  my  brothers,  and  four  other  young  peo- 
ple the  girls  knew,  and   were  full  of  merry  talk 

•d  troubled  ever  since  I  had  given 
to,  her  coaxing  invitation.     The 
others  had  begun  to  let  me  have  my  own  way,  and 
before  thev  went  she  came  to  me  again. 

"  If  you  don't  like  the  place,"  she  said,  "or  if  it 

come,  Phil  I" 

And  as  she  spoke  her  little  hand  touched  my 

arm,  and  her  dark  curls  dropped  against  my  cheek. 
The  touch  thrilled  me  through.      I  trembled  and 


think  of  me.     Good-by  V 


■  brush  and  pallet  aside,  and,  lying  prone 
ipon  my  little  scarlet-covered  lounge,  hid  my  face 
ind  wept— wept  33  a  girl  might,  sobbing  and  moan- 


■  long  pent  up  within  my 


looked  up  to  «e  Jessie  standing  in  the  d< 
my  studio  looking  at  me.    Her  bandB  we 

When  she  saw  mo  Bhe  advancecs  and  h 
beside  the  lounge.      Of  their  own  accort 


ii  have  seen  me  blubbering  like  a  baby 
well  know  the  full  extent  of  my  child- 
aid.  "  It  never  happened  before.  It 
gain.     But,  for  once,  I  longed  to  walk 

you,  as  F.ben  and  Sam  can.    The  sweet 


c  suffer.:!  tod,.  U,-: 


and  think  of  her  young  beauty  still  tinmmied  -her 
young  life  full  of  joy,  as  I  pray  it  may  be,  and  say, 
'God  permitted  me  to  save  her.'  Often  since  I  knew 
you  I  have  thought  she  may  bo  liko  you— I  have 
wished  it  could  have  been  you—    Jessie! — lessie!!" 

For  she  had  started  up  and  stood  before  mo  with 
clasped  hands. 

"  I  was  afraid  of  this,  Philip,"  she  said.  "  Ah  ! 
you  guessed  the  truth,  and  speak  as  you  do  to  spare 
-f,  Jessie  Hargrave— was  the 
,  death  at   such  a  cost.      Bettor 


child  you  saved  fr 

that  I  had  lain  there  dead— bettor  any  thing  than 

the  purchase  of  life  and  strength  at  such  a  price. 

sion—  shrink  from  me— bid  mo  begone,  for  I  have 
marred  your  life— I — I— I !" 

She  was  sobbing  fearfully,  and  I  drew  nenrcr  and 
put  my  hand  upon  her  shoulder. 

"For  God's  Bake,  Jessie,"  I  said,  "don't  speak 
so,  lest  you  hear  the  truth !  Hato  you  !  Oh,  Jes- 
sie, I  never  guessed  that  you  had  been  the  child, 
but  from  my  heart  I  say,  'Thank  Heaven  for  it!' 
At  least  I  have  done  you  some  little  good,  my  best, 
my—     Leave  me,  Jessie  — for  Ebon's  sake,  leave 

"  For  Ehen's  pake  ?"  she  cried.    "  Leave  you  for 

Ehen's  <„!;..— what  can  you  mean?" 

"  Foolish  words,"  I  said.      "Dear  friend— dear 


-■i't.T,  l.egel.  them." 

She  turned  her  wet  eyes  full  upoi 
fingers  touched  my  arm  and  clung  t 


;   and  forget  that  Mien's  brother  e 
ils  to  you.     Whatever  happrO'S 


Her  clinging  Jim-  v  ■  never  left  iny  arm. 

"Eben  :eoiin!"  she  said;  "surely  you  do  nr 
think  welove  each  other?  He  is  betrothed  to  Mougi 
Did  yon  not  guess  that?1' 

A  great  cloud  seemed  t 
of  my  sun.    The 


from  lli.'fa'-" 
nin.    At 

At  least  f  had  (I no  wrong 


in  loving  her.      I  looked  into  her  eve*. 
touch  of  her  hand.     I  breathed  her  vol 


Je,sie!- 


:.      "  I  scare  dy  dare 
ask  you  for  your  love,  and  claim  you  for  my  vt 
own.     Oh  were  I  strong  and  able  to  cherish  a 
protect  you !     But  now,  I  dare  not ;  I  dare  not  ask 
what  it  would  he  inadnr-s  to  hope  for!" 

Still,  her  fingers  never  stirred.     Her  eyeB  never 

"If  you  dare  not  ask  for  my  heart,  Phil,  how 
dare  I,  a  woman,  tell  you  how  long  it  has  been 
yours  without  great  shame  ?" 

I  caught  her  in  my  arm',  but  paused  even  then. 

"la  this  pity — the  payment  of  a  debt?"  I  asked. 
"Do  you  sacrifice  nothing  in  giving  yourself  to  a 
cripple  who  haw  only  love  to  give  you?" 


HUMORS  OF  THE  DAY. 


i  Uvi.i.rii..;.- A    ■'iui..l.'j  I 


rhuit.  must  I."  ii  ]vmnrk[iMy  (Inn  npcclnipn  of  lli-.h  Migli- 


nnfniVmo'it' 


CABINET  CONUNDRUMS 

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Why!-,,  Mr/1  nimlm, k.-r  lonrlnc  ,„■ 


Wliyi    H..-1-n-iT.. 

,l„„l?_l|,.  loot,  » 


..;•■.„:,:'.", 


«nl-l  the  lovely  Julia  to  the  hewitclilnp  Fnnny : 

•  M„  h-l/-,  .-.  1.  v  i-.il  iifv.-l„ni  I...I.V  lili.,  ft<-.u'H  1,1' 


\  Capital  R.— Tao  c 


An  elderly  and  good-™tiire 
rw  five  huadred  and  eighty  j 


.;.,,,!■    )■    .-,!    111?     .\[Viil"i-"'l-  -:'■'■    I     - 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  10,  1866. 


February  10,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[PEBRrARY  10,  1866. 


DADDY  DODD. 


■■■  i:..,..-r.ii 

':,;'  ,,,.;  ,■„'.,, ..i'. 


lO.C-t       Of       ill       tll.'ll        )l.-i;'llil",l]'".ll, 

ho  roof  which  John  ealld  his 


,  Mi. I  V  had  all'endv  ■  'i>il^,  il 
i:.,.,.!h  l.-lh.Hi,^  ,1;  ■■■  Hi, 
i  fe..   yap*  there  would  !»■  i 


i;    and  it  ia   usually  propelled  by  one  of  tin 
an  specioe.      Well,  it  would  never  do  if  w< 

ud   (Ik-  ^iih:  timl.ili«n.       While  mine  person: 


.f  .   ■■   herring 
ngly    dhplayet 


c«.       Chaldron  Street   »Rsgiv.*ii  ( 


down  dud  |. lilting  its  hert  up  agai 
that  John's  hrd-wreiK-h  was  in  n 


occupied  liy  the 
•  ordinarv  sitting- 
-■-place,  mrmonnt- 


■  <l,.nn    ti.  ity  was  ever  nit,, 


table,  and  senmbl 


fly  banquets  were  sharp  and  shoi 

fork.,   >lnp-b«si„B    and   the 'like, 
with.     Each  one,  as  he  finishct 


herring,  turned  the  other  way  and  flung  the  bones 
into  the  lire.  After  the  meal,  Mr.  Beadle  was  ac- 
customed to  sit  down  opposite  old  Daddv,  while 
Martha  drew  up  between  them,  and  devoted  her- 
self to  the  mending  of  the  family  linen  ;  but,  as 
the  number  of  chairs  was  limited,  the'  vouiiner 
branches  of  the  family  usually  reclined,  in  the 
classic  fashion,  among  the  coals,  from  contact  with 
which  they  derived  a  swarthiness  of  complexion 
which  caused  them  to  be  known  in  the  neighbor- 
hood as  the  "black  Beadles."      John  and  Martha 

had  any  ihing  happen  to  one  of  them  fortheworld  ; 
but  they  began  to  find  that  they  were  increasing 
both  in  numbers  and  in  appetite  in  a  ratio  altogcth- 

"  disprnpar ate  to  ihe  development  of  the  trade 

in  coals  and  vegetables,  notwithstanding  that  the 
rolling  stock  had  been  increased  by  a  new  truck 
and  a  second  bed-wrench.       John's'  iisUta  h.d 


tie  road,  far  choice,  and  although  the  thund, 
ich  it  mak-rs  as  it  traver.es   ,h,:  anal  traps  e 

pavement  is  considerable,  it  is  „„i  a  source  < 
le  to  iu  owner.      Beside*,  it  does  not  warrai 

•ssnmption  of  that  sceptre   of  authority, 


ulo   no  audible  reply: 
significantly  at  Daddy. 


'Martlia  said.    "1  had  no  right  e 


;  and  her  lips  trembled  a 

n\v  what  yim  menu."  ,h,hn  r 


::::;; 

nd  the  prospect  which  la 
,1,1  age.     His  money  was 

-  l„.f„ 
all  go 

e,  and 

d,  wo 

he  only  portion  of  his  pi 

Bid  news  to  tell  John  who 
ing  job)  to  his  dinner. 

tew  hah  re- 
git   to   bury 

M.-irllia,   by 

in,    father's 
t  Martha  w-i 


',  John,  with  a  proper  ap- 


'"  mIvm'  ^i""»is.  »'id  Ihe  veal  ehina 
rs!"     And  at  the  thought  of  the 
mincers  Martha  dropped  a  tear. 
ard,"  John  returned;   "and  that's 
od  between  him  and  it  as  long  as 


inesa,  and  let  the 

old  carpenter  was  pretty  well" off.  Bis  daugh- 
Mfirthu  shared  in  this  impression,  and  was 
her  di^-po-ed  to  boast  of  the  independent  gentle- 
n,  her  father,  and  cherish  expectations  of  an  in- 
itio -liiy,  .il, out  two  year-;  after  Marl  ha  had  lieen 
nicd  to  John  Beadle,  and  shortly  after  she  had 
dually  presented  John  with  the  second  pledge 
her  attrition,  old  Daddy  arrived  ut  the  empori- 
,  suffused  with  smiles  Martha  thought  he 
s  going  to  present  baby  with  the  silver  spoon;.. 


■  I've  got  something  to  tell  you,  Martha. 

'  What  is  it,  father?" 

1  Well,   Martha,   IVo  been  looking  in 


'All    gum-!      The    money   you've    got 


I'-ii-'hhi.r   to   mind,    and    in-i- 


lie  old  man   kept  his  money  (foi 

nqtier.-il-le  di^tru-t  of  hanks),  and 


othing  fell  out  of  it.     She  rumtna 

iseless  odds  and  ends  in  the  drawi-r. 

I'-nldng l.l  'In-  lind.      Sii'ld.'iiU  .'.h,'  | 


;hty  pounds  alto- 
r.     It'a  me  that's 


n-chi.irliv  tin-  lire,  and  patting  hi  in  Kiiull  vm  hi- 

d  head,  he  said  : 

'  Tiierc,  Daddy,  consider  yourself  at  home— pro- 


snuff;  and  a  glass  of  "sis  ale,"  punctually  every 


d   In-   v.. .1,1.1  ba.r  ii   nr.yvhnv   I. lit  in   Ihr  ,>nl 

.  landing  :ti  Ihe  pewl.-r  bar,  according  t 
i  which  lie  had  must  religiously  uli:-erve 
Ihan  l.irty  years.       One  of  the  income. 


k-.-ame  ilt.-f-r.-j.it  and  fer-M'-- 

■hM     "    md'h'rirjhimbac 
still,,,,  word  of  complain 

when  every  LhalJ1-ilrn,'"Uh.\-' 
"object."      The   ci-is   arri 

John,  in   L'enev.d    hot    signil 


And.  whib-  the  old  man  sat  dozing  in  his  chair,  all 
unconscious,  it  was  resolved  between  them,  after  a 
hard  struggle  on  John's  part  and  many  silent  tears 
on  Martha's  part,  that  John  should  next  day  put 
old  Daddy  into  the  work-house.  The  resolution 
was  taken,  and  the  old  man  slept  on.  Neither  John 
nor  Martha  had  the  courage  to  wake  him.  They 
were  afraid  that  he  might  read  their  terrible  inten- 
sions toward  him  in  their  guilty  faces.  "I  can  not 
io  it.  Martha,"  John  said  ;  and  he  made  an  excuse 
to  go  out  of  doors  to  smoke  his  pipe.     Martha  could 


"  Well,  come  along, 

-rare  rail 

r;  here' 

your hat 

""i'mr'eadv 

John, 

uite  readv 

.     Eh? 

bless  mo, 

Martha  had 

athor," 

She  had  re. 

jived  n 

t  to  say  l 

,  but  Bh 

"Tut,  tut,  r 

ty  dear, 

'  said  the 

old  man 

"wo  are 

>t  going  far. 

Arew 

..eh,,:-- 

"  Xn.  grandfather,  not  verv  fa 

"And  we'll 

nhn?" 

'■01.ves.gr 

.'■John.. 

nto-l  cln.h.d 

Marina  v.  hi 

ier.  il  t, 

lb-  child, 

ntogoa 

nd  shako 

know ;  and  then  I  dre 

t-i  ihe  l.iiai-ding-sclmt.l,  who. 


nd,  as  we  was  dri 
e  chaise,  John  « 

>  pounds,  just  n 


Wheal 

Iartha  went  down  stairs  again  John 

WSe 

timidlv  peeping  m  at  the  door. 

you  put  him  to  bed,  Martha  ?"  he  in- 

"Yes, 

ohn." 

"Doyo 

poor  old  dear!" 

"No,  0 

■  course  not,  Martha,"  John  said 

er  dream  that  we  could  he  such  mon 

he  Bay  any  thing?" 
e  said,  'God  bless  you,  Martha, and 
for  all  vour  kindness.' " 

,,les,    .l„|„ 

John.  , 

God 

acultie-. 

John  a 

,1   Marlba  crawled  up  to  bed  that 

enso  of  a  premeditated  crime  w.  ighing 

be  Old   1,1 

n  lay  they  turned  away  their  faces. 

irnlng  Martha  dressed  aerold  babt 

nhis 

Jest  clothes,  crving  over  him  all  the  while 

tiding  he: 

I".,,,,  as  bes,  shc  r,„,M.       lladdv  iv 

on  hia  bes 

things,  and  Martha  could  not  an 

t  him  at  breakfast-time, 


.,  leaking  after  th 
.  bar  ly  a  quarto 


t    bin)    pass.      It    e.aild    nnt    have  d.aie. 
■  land    Mayor.      At  loath  John,  lc,„l- 


"Grandfat ,'  he  said,  "  if  s  about  lime 

glass  „f  ale,  ain't  it?" 

"Well,  yes,  John,  I  think  it's  getting 

\\    il  ,,,',  ,  -    .,,,  ,,    •        '. 

"Ts  this   tho  Nag's  Head?"  the  old  i 

The  Nog's  Head  was  tho  honso  which 


Nag's    Head 


opposite  the  work-house  gates,  t 


"  Ves,  grandfather." 

"Ain't  this  the  work-house?" 

Daddy's  look,  his  fntimation  that  ho  knew  where 
he  was,  the  thought  that  hb  suspect,  d  his  design, 
struck  John  to  the  heart ;  and  he  hurried  tho  old 
man  aivav  from  the  gate. 

"The  work-house,  grandfather,  no,  no!"  John 


ing  home,  grand- 
'addy  away  from 


,  John—" 


February  10,  18R6.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


■  spect.il  pet  and  favi 
Benjy,  that  Daddy 


shop  windows.  The  people  round  al  out  called 
them  the  Bahes  in  the  Wood,  and  old  Daddy  was 
certainly  as  much  a  babo  as  Benjy.   -  He  took  the 


derings,  day  by  day, 


light  to  Miui.i  before  any  open  door  or  window 
afforded  them  a  view  of  a  process  of  manufa 
They  stood  on  gratings  and  listened  to  the  rattle  of 
sansagp-tnacbineB  "that   went  by  steam,"  Benjy 


grocer's— such    industrious  1 
i   kept  on  grinding   whether  - 


■  meals.     They  superintended  the 


absorbed  in  the  flaying  of  sheep,  a  proems  i 
hail  a  drop  abstract  interest  for  Ihmjy,  while 
Paddy  babbling  about  the  delights— In  him 
purulv  visionary  —  of  a  boiled  leg  of  muttoi 
caper  sauce. 


In  ttcse 

iv.ni'trriii--  llrnjv  w; 

s  careful  not  to  re- 

len^  lii-  hold  of  Daddv'a  hand, 

ed  never  to  leave  him 

e  did  not  to  let  him  tu 

mlile  down.     One 

in  i.l    v  .li- 

Benjv  did  let  Daddy 

tumble,  and  a  sad 

lis  mother  should 

He  did  his  best  w 

b  his  little  >otton 

;races  of  mud  from 

fraid  lest  the  old 

"tell  on  him."     Not  that  there  was 

any  wimt  of  loyalty  between  the 

n,  hut  Daddy  was 

intentionally,  let  out  things  which  not  IVnjy  into 
trouble;  so,"  when  any  thing  happened,  Benjy  was 
obliged  to  remind  grandfather  that  he  was  not  to 
tell. 

;  I  let  vou  fall  in  the 


lie  t.M  mini  protested.      "I- 

bout  it." 

plete  confidence  had  been  es 

■•  ii,   Benjv  sought    on   one  or 

.   grandfather's    silence   with 

at  that  moment   po-se^; 
j  day),  but  he  had  com 


evenings,  afi-T  tie  irrambl.-.  lUddy  and  Henjv  had 
d-ply  interesting  talcs  to  Ml  the  family  of  the* 
wonders  of  the  great  world  of  Snmers  Town. 

Alas,  that  tlm-.-  relations  should  no  often  have 
fallen  upon  indiilVrn.t  --ars  !  Bm  John  ami  Mar- 
tha were  becoming  suUmi  and  nmmh-,  a  piw  both 
of  them  to  the  deepest  anxiety.  The  i'amily  was 
Mill  increasing.  I>,it  ibe  business  continued  to  re^r, 
all  efforts  in  tlie  direction  of  di'v.-hmniout.  John 
w;,;  getting  into  debt  at  the  coal  wharf,  and  at  the 
p  ,t.iif.  warcbou.ee.  The  times  wore  haul,  and  were 
coming  on  harder  with  l he  approach  uf  winter. 
Coals  were  at  el.  h'cen-p"noe  a.  humlivd,  potato^ 
at  a  penny  a  pound.  The  poor  people  could  n't  pay 
tlv  price."     Poor  women   cane.'  lor  a  few  pound-  of 

w.ts  fc.irctlv  iinv  use  for  the  truck.      When  coais 

were  so  dear  and  tires   so    small,   Chaldron    Street 

was  a  good  deal  given  to  warm  it-ell'   in  it?    bed, 

-which  thus  became  a  p-nnauent  institution.      The 

e  to  John  was  that  bis  bed-wrench  rust- 

1  in  view  of  the  oxyd  which  ac- 

ulated  upon  it,  it  might  he  said  to  have  been 

iged  in  the  disastrous  occupation  of  eating  its 

I  off.      The  fortunes  of  the  emporium  were  at  a 

7  low  ebb;    John  and  Martha   could    scarcely 

lies,   clamoring    for  victuals,   and  not  finding 


ting  short  work  of  the  carrots,  attacked  even 
cabbage-leaves  and  the  turnip-tops.  John  and 
■tha  were  denying  themselves  day  after  day, 
;  the  old  man  might  have  a  bit  of  something 


ill  three  threatened  pi 
ly  expectation  of  an  r 


One  afternoon  John  was  sitting  on  a  stool, 
■.■  site  of  the  mountain  of  coal,  which  had  he 
noved  to  the  laBt  shovelful  of  dust  (and,  al  i 
■  capitalist  at  the  wharf  had  not  the  faith  to  : 
ic  it),  nt'erly  dejected  and  dispirited.     It  wat 


■  Do  you  ?"  said  the  man,  in  the  same 
'Do  you  come  here  to  mock  me?"  c 

rily,  rising  and  facing  the  intruder; 


t   we  are   in   great   di-Uv- 

.en,"  said  tin:  stranger,  "  it 
you.     You  are   Mr.  D,.dd 


his  *aki>."  John  replied. 

'Pei  haps  there  will  be  no  need  tor  that,  /■■>■ 

■\"  tin-  stranger  returned. 


•  ,T_'o  I  lift  i.  .-a  an  ndeenj-em 
reused  to  Daniel  Dodd,  inform 
applied    to    Mr.  Johnson,   solie 


Now,  thinking  that  the  Daniel  Dodd  v 
'      Mr. 


■       i  I 


'•You're  not  having  a  )ark,  a  t 
are  you?" 

"God  forbid,"  said  the  stranger,  gravely. 

tinued,  in  the  same  excited  way.     "  You're  not  out 

of  your  mind,  are  you?"* 

"Certainly  not,"  ivlurned  the  man. 

"Very  well,"  said  John;  "you  may  go  on." 

"I  was  going  to  say,"  the  stranger  continued, 

"  that   under  the   will   of  his   deceased    brother 

George,  who  died  some  time  ago  in  India,  Daniel 


Dodd  is  entitled  to  five  tli 
Btaire  cleaning  the  rooms. 


'Are  i 


'..me  ba.-l;  again  !  Father's 
lin  !  Father'.-  money's  eomc 
■■  shouted  it  over  and  over 
I  .-lapped  the  balusters  oveiy 


"  You  see,  Sir,"  said  John  I 
thinks  I  must  be  mad  ;  no  won 
were  mad.  But  here's  Dadd; 
dare  say,  and  you  can  tell  hi 

about  his  brother  (merge  who  went  to  India 

Daddy  came  in  from  one  of  his 


-  il"  I    thought 

he  knows  yot 
ho  often   talked 


walks  with  Benj, 
"brother  George  is  del 


good  old  age  of 
threescore  and  ten,  but  Daddy  still  thought  of  him 
as  the  lad  in  the  bluo  jacket  from  whom  ho  had 
parted  at  Wapping  when  they  were  boys. 

Not  without  many  difficulties,  long  delay,  and 
considerable  cost,  Daddy's  claim  to  the  five  thousand 
pounds  was  established.  John  gave  all  his  time- 
utterly  neglecting  the  emporium— to  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  matter,  and,  oddly  enough,  in  wooing 
Fortune  in  this  most  audacious  and  presumptuous 


,    thoiieh,   pre\  1 


mer,  In-  proved  s 
mhehndhurnbh 
for  a  single  sr 


her  chariot-wheels.  And  one  day  John,  knowin 
Daddy's  weakness,  brought  home  the  fivethousan 
pounds  all  in  notes  in  the  very  canvas  bag  whic 
had  been  the  old  man's  bank  in  the  days  when  r 


id.  And  now  what  will  >™  d„  with  it.'" 
t  will  I  do  with  it?"  said  the  old  man. 
I  keep  my  promise  to  Benjy,  and  buy  him 


When  ho  looked  u 


1  Daddy,  "  I'll  give  t 


"Oh,  well,  you  just  keep  that  for  yourself,  Mar- 

ha,  for  taking  care  of  your  old  father." 

And  Daddy,  with  no  elaborate  design,  but  witb 
ae   simple  innocence  of  a  child,   which  iB  somc- 


■  Martha  the  bag  containing  all  his  money. 

Before  John  even  thought  of  his  horse  and 
bough  that  was  lurking  in  a  corner  of  his  mind — 
c  regained  the  tenancy  of  Daddy's  old  hoiiBC, 
ti-ihed  it  with  as  many  of  the  old  sticks  as  lie  c 


11  was  dono,  led  Daddv  back  to  his  old  quartors, 
nd  joined  him  there  with  Martha  and  all  the  family. 
Butdnta-je  had  been  coming  upon  poor  old  Daddy, 
nd  he  could  scarcely  be  made  to  understand  the 

,is  old  room  ncopkd  with   the  faces  of  John  and 
i,  he  would  tell  hU daughter 


father  in  his  ago  and  need,  and  I 


HOME  AND  FOREIGN 


T..ke  «  >.-»t  mtlH.,1 


1  ivritlrn  the  !.■■..(■;  in  I'lviali,  n 


■"ph.      'Ih .'.li  Ha-  |"M'il>  I"""'   ii 


He  who  would  thrive,  n 


('" '-■■■■        tin       i  :■■■'    i  it..  •  ,i 

■■    -b/?w"i  rr .'     "-    '"  ,  ,\"  i1     '.'" 


-   fleet    Street,"    \\  In 


»"•(  >.t.      Tln.g.i,, 


FORSTER,  SeETZEN,  BlIRC 
'KL1.,  HUMBOLDT,  ZoBl.EH 


cntilic  examination  of  the  whole  Mediterranean 
Basin,  as  well  as  the  exploration  of  Northern  and 
Northern  Central  Africa,  don,-  in  l-o'h  eases  ft  woiic 
which  had  been  accomplished  by  no  predecessor. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  10, 


nmtry,  covering  18,100  square  feet  of 

e  are  daily  and  nightly  congregated 

ue  01  tno  City  of  tlie  Lakea,  am"  " 

tion  nnd  tlie  fancy  skaters  nre  show 
all  .under  a  flood  "of  light,  f 
brilliant  in  the  o 


THE  HEW    H\L.\   l^llll- 


February  10,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  10,  1866. 


THE  DEAD  LETTER. 

A  NEW  AMERICAN  NOVEL. 


ypli.ln  why  !hi,<  brl-f  c-|>I 


.  Argyll  imj.-l),  nor  lie 


1  fought  Inwardly  to  coiiqm 


tangbt  me  by  my  own  inffertngs,  thoagh  I 


I  Mr.  Argyll  In  liaata-wlK 


-the  fur-uway,  frightful  I 


\\  l,il.;  tli.'  I[i.(iic-a  ivn.  ■  pvocxiling,  1 


,»,ll".il    l:ni::liivr    fhrHI.nl    n, ui. 

M.-.  Argyll   iirufi.-  Hi.d   n-L-jir.  ..in  ; 


.    il-.lii  y.       I'm  «:>!  uyiny,     -I'm  „ 


i  Kide  street,  uud  di -:■;•.■> ;-.: 


...  i  .  ,  v  ...  '.;■  ightened  me.    Where  have  you  be 
Liking  In  the  cool  air.    The  home  smothered  m< 


who  had  gathered  i 


working  people  lived.    The  h 


i  lily  ■   l.v.kini;   i 


lai-8,  1  beheld  the  ae wing- 


that  my  owu  gaze  dropped  t 


t  know.    Four  days  ago  T 


.nmiity    of  i.uiting   the  police  on 


February  10,  1866.] 


gAKPER'S  WEEKLY. 


?   Floi:imel  is  an  exquisite  1 
■  Dr.  Burnett  makes  is  the  be 


aic  for  Eui^ieul  operati. 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 


$E   SEWING 
®U    MACHINE. 

The  Embodiment  of  Practical  Utility 
and  Extreme  Simplicity. 


& 


"is^;;,: 


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CEBTAEi  ESTOLSIOH  FROM  THE  BODY. 


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Are  Over. 

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Capital,  $2,500,000. 
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brass  or  plated  jewdry  is  included  In  the  whole  immense 


ch  Silverware,  Fine  Gold  Jewelry, 
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Fine  Gold  Watch  or  Piano. 

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[February  17,  1866. 


THB-CO     TITUTIONAL  AMEND- 
MENT. 
THE  Amendment   to  the  Constitution,  of 
whkh  we  spoke  las.  week,  hasten  passed 
by  ii  triumphant  majority 


liUcd  the  npiTin 


nsJIv.Srr.vr, 
try  will  now  1 
lays  coiisequi 


dear  flint  this  feeling, 
ists,  is  controlled  by  an 


v., il  educate 


v  divided  between 


against    him.      Dc-pile    the   liberal    lying,    the. 

kecs  were  coming  to  sell  them  to  Cuba,  or  that 
they  would  be  left  to  starve  and  freeze;  de- 
spite the  insane  orders  of  Hjt  llbok  andM'C-LEL- 
lan,  which  were  the  most  convincing  apparent 
proof  of  the  truth  of  such  representations,  the 
colored    population   belie 


Yankee- 


Macks  were  enfranchised,  whether  by  the 
te  or  the  Nation,  they  would  vote  with  the 
!  musters  ?  Nobody  knows  better  than  the 
ites  that  they  would  not.    Why,  then,  should 


mber  of  representative?,  but  an 
:  imposing  a  penalty  upon  the  i 
so  unmanly  and  demoralizing  a  ] 
hasten  a  reform.  Meanwhile  th 
>I  in  the  State  will  not  be  depriv 


A  PREPOSTEROUS  BALANCE. 

The  balance  in  the  Sub-Treasury,  on  the  cv< 

g  of  .January  3i,  was  about  $io5, 000,000, 
lidi  over  half  wn*  gold  and  silver  coin.  T 
ii  larger  balance  than  could  be  shown  bya 
her  civilized  governmen 
nsiderably  more  than  o 


irly  one-third  of  c 


The  quotirr. 


We 


lovcrnmenf,  whirl,  limU  ii  ne.-e.-aiy 
I'M-cn  separate  taxes  on  the  inannladi. 
onk.  enh  contrive,  to  accumulate  sen- 
^legal-tender  nioucv,  andovr;  nt'M.n 
VE'ION.S  Ol  (iOLI.COIN  ill  its  Vaults? 
have  hciird  of  no  considerable  amount 
ded  repositions.     The  army,  the  nai 


have  all  been  or  are  being 
paid  off.  Nothing  "is  heard  now  about  the  de- 
lays of  Government,  which  used  to  be  such  a 
standard  topic  of  denunciation  a  year  or  so 
since.  Congress  is  "shutting  down"  pretty 
firmly  on  private  claims  for  damages  arising 
out  of  the  war.  Under  the  circumstances,  the 
revenue  being  in  fact  in  excess  of  the  expendi- 
ture, what  does  the  Treasury  do  with  a  balance 


f$io5,< 


this  1 


,1,1   SJi^.r 


.    indii 


money  belonging 
in  the  T.sasuiy  on  call  after  ten  days  at  4,  5, 
and  6  per  cent,  interest.  A  very  insignificant 
proportion  of  this  money  was  drawing  4  and  5 
per  cent. ;  the  great  bulk  was  drawing  6  per 
cent,  interest.  Assuming  that  the  whole  amount 
drew  5J  per  cent.,  Government  was  paying 
$6,270,000  per  annum  for  its  use,  or  $17,500 


ic  or  Tory  party. 
,  they  would  prc- 
icir  own  purposes 


Mr.  M'Cl-llulh  ih 
exorbitant  powers  granted  by  the  Ways  an 
Means  bill,  it  may  bo  well  for  some  membt 

been  wasted?  The  country  is  not  in  a  cond 
tion  to  waste  any  money.  Though  the  peoph 
with  their  old  whole-souled  obedience  to  lav 
are  paying  taxes  steadily  just  ns  they  are  e? 
acted  of  them,  there  is  none  the  less  a  feeling 
among  all  classes  that  Government  is  drawing 
at  least  as  much  money  as  it  ought  from  indi- 

any  of  it  away  through  errors  of  policy. 

Another  point.  Of  the  Treasury  balance 
shown"  on  1st  February  about  $52,ooo,ooc 
were  in  coin.  What  did  the  Government  warn 
with  all  this  gold  if  no  immediate  attempt  wai 
to  be  made  to  resume  specie  payments?  Fo: 
over  n  week  gold  has  been  so  scarce  in  thit 
city  that  £  @  -&  of  1  per  cent,  have  beei 
paid  for  its  use  for  a 


cci  policy  in  one  specific  di 
Jrant  and  President  .l<>n> 

i  South  have  settled  the  bn 


THE  COTTON  CROP. 


for  years.  After  the  lapse  of  a  few  weeks,  how- 
ever, a  certain  number  of  bales  began  to  come 
forward,  and  the  authorities  in  the  trade  then 
reluctantly  began  to  admit  that  there  might  be 
i,a5o,ooo  bales  on  hand.  We  have  already 
received  more  than  this,  and  the  best'-in- 
formed  circulars  now  estimate  that  not  less 
than  2,5oo,ooo  bales  will  come  forward  before 
worth,  at  present  prices,  5o 


ntil  within  b 

ol'  the  defunct  institution  of  Slavery  1 
ive  that  the  negro  would  not  work  i 
of  freedom,  and  that  many  many  y 


million  bales  was 
some  weeks  this  th 
it  has  begun  to  be  ai 
will  be  i,5oo,ooob 


favorable  circumstances,  the  crop  might  reach 
2,5oo,ooo  bales.  And  now  the  trade  seem 
agreed  that,   if  no  accident  happens,   we  may 


Allowed  by  other  suj 
::ce.  The  object  0 
;.  sh  arbitrary  depriv 


er  population, 
ncapacity.  but 
ill  rap-eon  s)y  n> 


i  day.     This  s 


ied  by  any  export  of  coin 
—for  exchange  has  ruled  steadily  below  the 
point  at  which  coin  can  be  profitably  exported  ; 
it  has  been  wholly  due  to  the  withdrawal  from 
general  circulation  of  over  fifty  million  dollars 
by  the  Treasury  Department.  It  need  hardly 
be  explained  that  coin  once  received  at  the 
United  States  Sub-Treasuries  is  practically  lost 
to  commerce  until  it  is  disbursed.  So  long  as 
it  remains  in  the  banks  it  can  be  loaned  out  or 
used  in  any  way  that  is  required.  Once  in  the 
Sub-Treasury  it  might  just  as  well  be  at  the 
bottom  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  so  far  ns  any 
benefit  to  trade  is  concerned.  During  the 
year  i865  Government  sold  its  surplus  gold  as 


thus  the  operations  of  the  Sub-T 

this  practice  was,  it  was  infinite 

hoarding  the  gold  idly  in  the  Tn 

We  pretend  to  no  knowledge  c 

of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 


Tiie  Report  of  the  Internal  Revenue  Cc 
mission  is  received  with  universal  favor.  I 
both  practical* and  philosophical,  and  is  in 
self  an  admirable  illustration  of  one  of  its  0 
observations — the  advantage,  namely,  of  p 
the  right  men  in  the  right  places.     If  all 

.try  were  filled  with  men  who  were  pecul- 
fitted  for  the  work;  if  all  the  degrees  and 
ities  of  .office  in  the  Government  Depart- 
is  were  occupied  by  men  trained  for  their 
js,  the  economy  and  efficiency  of  the  Gov- 
aent  would  be  incalculably  increased.  For- 
gery, the  choice  for  the  peculiarly  arduous 
jrtaking  of  investigating  the  confusion  of 


heushc.  simple,  and   eH'ective,  loll   ur 
who  were  signally  competent. 

The  Report  is  written  in  the  plaii 

most    intelligible    -tvle,    and    without 
weakening  tone 


ilie  present  rates,  wh  h  1  ■  i c-  proposed  amend- 
ments, would  bo  $13.-.,<i00,irt>r.  Then  allow- 
ing wld.OliO.OOO  increase  in  the  estimate*  -a 
ihoSocretarvoftlieTieasurv  tor  the  vearen.  i.u 
June  30,  1807.  whim  will  make  *:)<)u,OUO,Outj. 
and  setting  aside  Soil, 000, 0t>0  for  1  he  reduction 
of  the  principal  of  the  national  debt,  there  will  . 
remain  a  surplus,  assuming  the  estimates  to  be 
correct,  of  ©85,000,000  for  the  reduction   of 

The  recommendations  of  the  Report  for  im-      - 

mediate  action  relate  exclusively  to  the  reduc- 
tion of  the  present  execs-ive  duplication  of 
taxc.-.  which  would  not  seriously  impair  the 
revenue.  The  adoption  of  further  reduction 
should  depend  upon  t 


indeed  the  Commit 
;  perfectly  safe. 


country  to  sustain  it-  burden  are  a 
confirmation  "f  ibe  substantial  correct 
value  of  the  little  pamphlet,  "OurBu: 
our  Strength."  which  was  prepared  di 


nd  Richard  Cobden,  nr 
and  surprising  ground 
The  present  Report 


PERSONAL  GOSSIP. 


ery  necessary  public  ser 

and  correspondents  that  they  can  not  pub 

the  defamatory  rumors  concerning  cunspicu 
men,  winch  are  always  circulating  in  a  gi 

ibility.  A  libel  suit  is  always  so  unpleas 
that  most  men  are  content  to  "take  no  no 
of  what  the  papers  say."  But  the  substn 
of  many  of  the  letters  written  from  New  Y 
to  newspapers  in  various  parts  of  the  com 
is  personal  gossip  ;  and  the  temptation  to  s> 
a   shilling  mark  and  regale   the  country  1 


:  this  fondness  of  gossip  about  noted  ] 
s  not  confined  to  Yankees.    Foreign  c 


nd  Th 


arply  satirize 
this  offense  in  "V 
s  of  gossip  about  forei 
ompared  with  those  1 


espeeiallv  perhaps  in  France,  am. 
of  true  gentlemanly  conduct  than 
States. 

The  personal  memoirs  and  di 


as  respectable  ; 


lot  entitled  to  more  of  the 

n.!"„,cli'uano'n  Allows.       V* 

,  because  they  delight  in  •■ 


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poet's  poetry, 
consume  his  t 
ositv,  from  wl 
to  extricate  I 
churlish  when 


svmpathy  and  respecl 
himself.  They  will  ui 
'do  his  work  he  can  1 


.,!,.   Lull, 


a  delibei 


,000  infected  1 
and  Galic  a, 
w  destroying 


•  describing  notal 


ousins  Johnny! 
addicted  to  goss 
10  is  a  gentlemai 


rl,    ,,.,,-c 


luEEBON  does  in  describing  Landor 
'yle.      But  a  traveler  with  the  sp 
dmiring  barber  will  confound  fair  a 
letaila  in  a  huge  swash  of  gossip. 
And  how  they  might  be  paid  off  in 


the  bosom,  On  Thursday  they  quite  overspread 
ir.  On  Friday  the  waistcoat  closed  up  entirely. 
Ou  Saturday  there  was  nothing  but  cravat  to  be 


generously  thrown  open,  and  an  imperceptible 
No  man  can  defend  himself  against  the  in- 


tion  might  readily  harmonise,  and  must  there- 
fore be  deprecated  by  all  thoughtful  men. 
"Let  us  be  practical,"  he  said  to  Mr.  Schenck, 
in  asking  him  to  yield  a  favorite  plan.  Cer- 
tainly, let  us  be  practical.  Let  us  also  be  firm 
and  clear-sighted.  Let  us  not  betray  any  in- 
terest confided  to  us,  and  not  be  hood-winked 
or  seduced.  But  let  us  also  understand  that 
honest  men  may  honestly  diHe: 
height  of  folly  is  to  insist  upon 
of  those  whoaC  union  is  essentia 


which  made  it  [the  con 

long,  no  longer  owe  a  dividec 

Republic  through  all  time  to  o 
of  the  contending  hosts  sleep 
of  a  common  country,  and  un 
its  common  Hag.     Their  hostil 


dut...  I.ul   Inn 


in  the  Lorn 

''    The   <li- 


.  plague  i 


iparontly  very  contagious. 
Dogs,  sheep,  pigeons,  hens  which  have  pecked 
among  the  affected  cattle ;   the  attendants  on 

sheds  of  diseased  animals  have  been  drained ; 
high  winds  and  public  roads  along  which  the 
herds  have  been  driven— all  retain  and  convey 


l,.r.'iRii   I'.r.wu.. 

'"n'!nu>  i I..H  , 

';';,;.'■'";, :i; ,; 


lurovMlinVliBirw^nii) 
i    in      ,      .],    ,nt    u-ulrij 


nth  this  c 

llinois,  introduced  his  bill  into  Congress  foi 

ddding  the  presont  importation  of  cattle.   Th 

atest  accounts  from  England  make  the  loss  n 
he  present  time,  in  consetjiienco  ot  the  pliiguc 


net  of  prohibitum  <>i  uii|u. 
ilie  j.eslileiice  would  dot 
.Muck  iVom  its  ravages,  i 


t  during  the  rage  c 


.  STEVENS'S  "RHETORIC, 
first  reports  of  Mr.  Stevens's  spee 
re  were  several  allusions  to  the  Pr< 


dently  mistaken  by  t 

Yet  while  this  eon 

sarcasm  is  still  plain 

trouble  President  Jo) 


ould 


on  is  made  the  foolish 
ugh.  "We  shall  not 
r  by  sending  him  this 


or  his  approval."  And  again:  "We 
end  it  to  him  and  ask  his  opinion  about 
:herefore  it  was  all  the  more  kind  in 
end  us  his  opinion  without  being  asked 
The  folly  of  such  talk  under  the  tir- 
ces  is  incredible.    There  may  be  times 

on  that  this  is  the  time  when  sjnc-ixi-i,. 
against  the  President  is  useful  in  the 
i  of  the  President's  party  in  Congress, 
another  proof  of  his  singular  incapacity 


President  with  : 
coerce  Congress 


t  the  worst  interpretatio 


Pl- 


an attempt  to  coerce  Congress.     Thai 

nn'm  il„    ^annast  grounds.  ...«l 

null  to  the  President.  He  may  think 
i  reported  to  have  sai.l,  tli.n  legi-lntioi 
tflragein  the  Di  -  n      f  Columbia  i-  un 


Hal  un'clv  ii  1  lie  rubol  .la.nl.  ivlio  ihuil. 
speak,  in  their  sins,  arc  worthy  ot  this  t 
national  regard,  it  would  bo  very  hard  i 
nation  politically  to  disable  forever  the 
living  who  may  truly  repent.  For  instunce: 
Wise  of  Virginia,. Keitt  of  South  Carolina, 
Cobb  of  Georgia,  and  Barksdale  of  Missis- 
sippi, were  "leading  actors  in  the  conspiracy 
which  led  to  the  rebellion."  They  all  took  up 
arms.  .Keitt  and  Barksdale  were  killed; 
Cobb  and  Wise  survive.  Now  if  Keitt  and 
Barksdale  are  to  be  considered  "the  dead  of 
the  nation,"  why,  in  the  name  of  fair  play,  are 
Wise  and  Cobb  to  be  dishonored  and  disfran- 
chised by  the  nation?  If  two  men  engage  in 
a  criminal  undertaking,  and  one  is  killed  iu  the 
act  and  the  other  escapes,  how  can  a  nation  bo 
considered  sincere  in  respecting  the  "  courage 
and  devotion"  of  the  fallen  if  it  stigmatizes  the 
survivor  ?  The  sincerity  and  bravery  of  many 
of  the  Colonial  Tories  who  fought  against  their 
fellow-countrymen  in  the  Revolution  were  un- 

were   ever  considered  the  "priceless  posses- 


Wo  i 
ntial  to  magnanimity, 


Tm 


THE  CATTLE  PLAGUE, 
coincident 

and  of  the 
1  striking  t 


it  no  effectual  pre 

ither.     The  loss  o 

lready  so  great  that 

ising,  the  whole  history  of  the  su  „  . 
illy  explored. 
It  appears  that 


real  I 


ninth  century  it  was  especially  severe.  The 
armies  of  Charlemagne  with  thoir  necessary 
supplies,  strewing  whole  countries  with  decay- 
ing carcasses,  are  held  responsible  for  the  pes- 
tilence at  that  time,  as  armies  are  responsible 
for  some  other  of  the  fearful  scourges  of  hu- 
manity. The  North  British  Review,  which  con- 
tains an  interesting  paper  upon  the  subject, 
says  that  the  wars  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
alio,  generated  the  cattle  plague,  and  that  in 
the  three  years,  from  1711  to  1714,  1,800,000 
cattle  died  of  it  in  Western  Europe.  It  lasted 
seven  years  in  Italy,  and  Holland,  in  ten  years, 

lost  more  than  2(Jti.i»i<.  •■ In  n.ah    nan 

after  the  death  of  Charles  VI.  three  millions 
oi  cattle  died  of  the  plague  in  Central  and  West- 
ern Europe.  Between  1745  and  1758  at  least 
500,000  were  destroyed  by  the  disease  in  Great 


away  by  the  plague  in  Western  Eainnu. 


the  pest  proceeds  from  the  stepposol  European 
Russia.  The  lower  part  of  the  Dnieper  is  bor- 
dered by  Russian  provinces  which  breed  some 
8,000,000  cattle,  among  which  the  plague  al- 
ways prevails.      The  stock  sent  from  these 


THE  CITY  HEALTH  BILL. 
Senator  White,  of  the  Onondaga  District 
in  this  State,  was  one  of  the  Committoo  ap- 
pointed last  year  by  the  Seuato  to  investigate 
our  municipal  affairs ;  and  the  curious  and  in- 
teresting knowledge  he  then  acquired  ho  has 
lately  made  effective  in  a  remarkable  .speech  in 
theSenato  upon  t ho  In  nib  Hill     in  ,lm    


i  In,  iMiiin:  i 
'hell  H'.nura] 
in    oliii.au.:    I 


i'  they  understood  Hygienics. 
?  opinion  that  they  had  it  bad 
s;  some  thought  it  did  not  prov; 
:  oiliuci  told  the  Committee  tl: 


i  knew  that  stagnant  v 


10  Health 
that  which  is  now  re- 
ft ho  might  have  safely 


ponsible  for  it,  alt 
irged  that  it  could 

ie  is  reported  to  have  Baid  that  very  much  of 
he  shameless  swindle  of  the  present  Health 
ystem  was  due  to  its  partisan  character,  and 
ie  most  forcibly  opposed  making  the  one  pro- 
losed  a  party  machine.  Tho  opponents  of  the 
.ill,  as  reported,  claim  that  it  is  merely  an  ex- 
ension  of  the  power  of  the  Police  Commission, 
nd  through  that  of  a  certain  political  faction. 
Jut  it  is  pretty  clear  that  tho  objection  comes 
torn  those  who  would  not  oppose  the 


eau.il  before  tllo  low.    Ha  y.v. 


:::;;»:■  .,:.....;.  .:^,....'^'™ ™;?;'"' 


Icifiroiiiid  Railroad  on  JW.l, 


FOREIGN  HEWS, 


thll    In*'.       Tlii'     pr.'-.I'llJlllii   ni      I 


■v. ;.,:.:,." 


na  well  »■  tho  ready  c 
nlentotVidftoveb. 
Uziir. 

Tin.-  I'nub'h  -tson-l. 
foundered  at  »■■     ™' 

han.lrei'hAm°?gt'lie?. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Febth'-Ahy  1  7. 


"x 


GEORGE  BANCROFT. 

The  eminent  historian  of  the  United  States, 
whose  portrait  accompanies  the  present  sketch,  is 
a  remarkable  instance  of  the  intellectual  culture 
and  development  which  may  bo  attained  under  the 

influence  of  American  socii/tv  and  institutions.  A 
cosmopolitan  by  education,  'habits,  and  tastes,  in 
>  pint  anJdiara.  ter  hu  is  an  American  of  the  Amer- 
icana. Nurtured  in  the  traditional  literary  disci- 
pline and  choice-.t  itfiola-ii.  Iramin"  ol  NYw  En- 
gland, at  an  early  ago  L,.  ulv^ht  lh*  mon,  ,jU.ral 
and  profound  method,  of  Lur  r,.-ar,  education.      \b- 


"With  the  study  of  and 

and  with  an  instinctive  mn»k'lii-  of  ),i,  fuh',^' 

1  the  purpose  of  embortyinc;  ihe  sp 


f  Plato  in  the  democracy  o 


pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Chui 
birih  and  early  surrounding  he  belonged  to  the 
order  of  New  England  Brahmins,  wbonf Wendell 
Holmes  so  quaintly  celebrates,  as  predestined  toa 
life  of  studious  culture  and  lettered  fame.  At  Har- 
vard College,  which  he  entered  when  a  mere  boy, 
lie  was  considered  a  prodigy.  Cambridge  tradition 
still  preserves  the  memory  of  hit  -liyht  figure,  his 


the  facility  and  ^raee  of  his  utterance  and  the  mi 
low  ripeness  of  his  daw..;,l  .,iid  philosophical  ; 
tainments.  His  oration  on  graduating,  wln.ai  on 
seventeen  years  old,  was  on  a  proiouml  lb,. ,],,..  a 

is  said  to  have  been  a  nu,^  , .-...  „f  ih.mght  a 

eloquence.  The  brilliancy  of  his  powers  and  t 
vivacity  of  his  manners  made  him  a  universal  1 
vorito.      His  precocious  genius,  tempered  with 

wMom  beyond  liis  year;.,  wa-  tli..-  admiration  ai 
prophecies  of  his  future  renown. 

Upon  leaving  Cambridge  ho  sailed  for  Euroi 
where  he  passed  five  years  in  travel  and  in  stm 
at  the  principal  German  universities.  Mis  instnn 
ors  were  among  the  most  celebrated  men  of  the  da 
His  course  of  study  was  more  extensive  and  pi 
found  than  at  that  time  had  beeu  pursued  by  ai 
American.     He  evinced  a  i^ro  opacity  lor  lab, 


:>urse  in  history,  phi 
His  youthful  zen 


,.,..,,- 


ripened  into  a  warm  and  permanent  frit 
On  returning  to  this  country  in  1822 
a  year  at  Cambridge  as  Greek  tutor 
College,  and  introduced  several  valuable 
the  course  of  classical  study,  although  t 


bat  place  was  too  strong  to  ace 
-.asm  for  learning,  stimulated  a 


February  17,  1866.] 


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bad  been  by  his  lone  P  siflence  :■■■  l,i  .-■- ■; 
in  Germany,  and  bis  fresh  and  ardent  faith  in  in- 
tellectual life  and  progress,  came  into  violent  col- 
lision with  a  moss  of  prejudice,  ignorance,  and  stu- 
pidity on  the  part  of  youugst*rs  who  bad  scarcely 
ceased  to  be  school-boys.  His  dreams  of  improve- 
ment amidst  tho  shady 


genial  field  of  ell 
School  at  Northai 
Sir.  Cogswell,  I 


>rt  in  tlie  celebrate!  liomv 

e  established  in  J>0m.  Th 
..i.1,.1  novoliy  .1111. .in;  the  i 
TiiilL-il  State?.      All  it?  ap. 


H    - 


nnheard  of.     The  a 
pean,  were  employed  in  i 

was  thrown  around  tlic  admini-tr.nion  of  le 
which  was  scarcely  in  accordance,  willi  An 
tastes.     Pupils,  however,  flocked  to  the  plai 

;t  wi.lc  -in. I  ;_-=■-■!. Ti.s.-  in-'imUe  \mc;  rivm  iu  (!>■ 


if  remarkable 

laction.     Considered  not  only  as  a  faithful  record 
if  a  most  important  period  in  the  development  of 

t  as  a  highly-wr-m^it  speci- 


lipsed  by  the  splendor  of  his  Htor 
office  of  Secretary  of  the  N'av) 


the  love  of  salutary  i 


for  his  anient  faith  in  t 
garded  as  the  highest  e 
inanity,  and  for  his  uni 
progressive  measures. 


"m:,,ilV.',,Vvi' 


intellect  by  his  power  of  transparent  exposition  and 
cogent  nrgument.  Not  the.  least  honorable  dis- 
tinction  whirl,  ,,.-.„■  hi  name  is  the  decision  with 
which  he  sided  with  the  friends  of  tho  ITnion  dur- 
ing the  recent  terrible  conflict,  in  opposition  to  the 
claims  of  party  associates  and  political  antecedents. 


INSIDE. 

A  CHRONICLE  OF  SECESSION. 
By  Geoiigb  F.  Harrington-. 

FODR  CHAPTERS. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

It  may  tend  to  lower  the  Rev.  Edward  Arthur 

in  the  eyes  .of  the  readers  of  these  pages ;  but 


i  proclivity  for  loving, 


Of  course  it  is  painful  to  make  the  statement 
yet  it  must  be  said  that,  from  the  day  when  jus 
three  years  old,  he  was  detected  in  tho  act  oi 
kissing  behind  a  parlor  rocking-chair  a  youn; 

penence  of  life,  onward  lie  had  never  ceased  t 


m  eeiaHv  :.i^i.-finfod.  wiih  him  i'.>r  i.l.e  nine  >>l  ihe 
little  Cleopatra  of  the  hour.  Up  to  the  very  day 
..i'  l,.-;,.viii-  iVn  c>lU-:-,e  he  luul  not  leal- ned  to  nias- 

With  the  development  of  lungs  and  brains  and 
nil  the  rest  the  heart  had  persisted  in  growing 
also.  Not  that,  when  Ue  rolled  nwav.  ju>i  six- 
teen years  old,  in  the  stage  from  his  father's  door, 
he  had  as  yet  met  exactly  with  his  ideal.  None 
the  less  did  he  bear  away  with  him  th 
hi?  hem,  t lie  lock  of  her  hair  being  b 
ni  hi-;  imnk,  of  (he  I.im,  in  the  ijuick 
of  tho  queens  of  his  childhood  ;  not  sc 
caiue  he  loved  lu>\  as  from  the  plea 
to  him,  tho  absolute  necess  . 
love  somebody. ' 

His  four  years'  course  in  collego  was  a  sudden 
and  total  interregnum  in  all  this.  Minerva  set 
aside  Venus  with  perfect  success  during  those 
four  college  years.  Heart  had  to  content  itself 
with  merely  keeping  up  the  circulation  while  the 
brain  was  being  developed.     Vastly  better  would 


more  equally  between  thcin — not  so  cold  and  hard 
would  those  four  years  have  been.  Languages, 
philosophy,  mathematics ;  mathematics  philoso- 
phy, languages  all  the  session  through,  the  im- 


i'ce  perceptible.  That  day  Edward 
ated  he  conld  havo  laid  his  hand 
s  of  the  silk  gown  which  covered 
fully  dcclured  bis  !ir.:r' 


to    hare    been,  during  1 

wholly  free  from  thought  of  woman. 

'    '     steps  of  the  platform  a 
)  could  have  safely  d    ' 


d   tended    i 
nu  ii.  i'ii    in 

|o.;i  in;;    hi..') 

I: i   he  bad   ■ 


I  from  Alma  Muter,  most 
i  period  which  fol- 


rcverccl  and  beloved  of 
Altogether  too  short 
lowed  to  think  upon  any  thing 
ntc  Past  and  the  immediate  Future.     Bright 

and  early  that  September  morning  following  bis 
graduation  did  he.  pre-,  i it  hiiii'-ell'  in  the  ch.tpel 
of  rhe  Theological  Seminary  to  be  matriculated  ; 

ministry.  And  into  it  ho  plunged:  Church 
History;  Theology  polemic,  didactic,  patristic, 
exegetic;  the  preparation  and  delivery  of  scr- 
rij.-ii  - ;  II.  Inu'.v  ;  ChaJdaic;  Syriac  ;  German. 
Grudgingly  was  the  morning  and  evening  walk 
granted  to  the  muscles;  only  because  it  was  a 
necessary  nuisance  was  the  stomach  supplied 
with  the  regulation  food  at  the  regulation  hours 
in  the  regulation,  refectory— it  was  the  brain 
uiiiit  he  exercised,  tbe  brain  must  be  fed.  No 
wonder  if;  like  the  right  arm  of  tbe  blacksmith, 
it  was  developed  beyond  the  rest  of  the  body,  out 
of  proportion  to  the  rest  of  the  body.  True,  the 
heart  was  allowed  free  play  in  regard  to  things 


And,  perhaps,  it  was 


such  tilings 


;  eye  and 
and  prompt  to  gather 


deep-seated  iiii-uin 
custom  of  the  heart,  before  its  doors  were  opened 
to  nil  the  world.  Yet,  if  its  affection  for  all  else 
could  only  be  kept  duly  subordinate,  the  very 
exercising  tho  heart  in  the  lour  of  all  human 
tilings  would  fit  it  for  tho  i 


::  e    I  :'in I,   quick   tcf ......    . 

every  little  flower  flourishing  by  the 
is  but  trained  thereby  for  tho  prizing  and  the 
gathering  the  more  eagerly  of  all  diamonds  and 
precious  stones,  too,  which  may  sparkle  along 
the  road-side  of  life.  Is  it  altogether  fanciful 
to  remember  here  that,  though  the  heart  beat  in 

itself  two  separate  and  distinct  sets  of  organs, 
an  auricle  and  ventricle  on  the  left  side  there- 
of, and  an  auricle  and  ventricle  on  the  right  side 
thereof?  Thou  shalt  love  God,  and  thou  sbalt 
lovo  men,  is  tho  divine  command.  Only  as  we 
love  cither  perfectly  do  we  love  both  perfectly. 
Only  as  we  love  both  as  we  should,  do  we, 


"He  that  loveth  not  his  brother  whom  ho  hath 
seen,  how  can  he  love  God  whom  he  hath  not 
seen  ?  And  this  commandment  havo  we  from 
him,  That  he  who  loveth  God  love  hia  brother 

One  thing  is  perfectly  certain,  if  ever  there 
was  a  man  prepared  to  love,  prepared  to  love 
any  thing  and  every  thing  which  cauld  be  loved, 
that  man  was  the  Rev.  Edward  Arthur  when 
he  found  himself,  college  and  seminary  passed 
through,  pastor  of  the  church  in   Somerville.- 


the  church 
Neglected,  forgotten,  the  hea 
to  assert  itself— was  to  mak( 
endured  tyranny  of  the  brain. 

Let  me  pause  a  moment  here,     x  nave  sam 
thing  to  say  which  may  greatly  weaken  the  rea 
estimation  of  the  Rev.    Edward  A jj*1;- 


ay  it  exactly  as  it 
c  caref-".-  -Vn    ,    ' 


nucb  the  greater 


possibly  help  it  ;  at  b\ist 
I'mdini  him,  imlnlMcU  lead- 
er, tor  it  was  a  love  which,  however  hastily  kin- 
dled, never  ceased  to  burn  thereafter  with  hut 
stronger  and  brighter  and  purer  flame. 

The  way  of  it  was  this :  When  Guy  Brooks, 
Esq.,  years  before!  Secession,  had  written  to  the 
young  theologian  to  come  to  Somerville  and  or- 
ganize a  church  in  that  new  but  promising  town. 
and  had  received  a  promise  of  doing  so  in  reply, 
lie  forthwith  begun,  in  a  terrible  hurry,  to  look 

suitable  home  for  i 
to  be  among  the  m 
church,  to  begin  wi 
families  should  it  bi 
He  himself  was  t 
at  the  time  at  the 
place  for  a  preacher ; 


new  minister.  It  ought 
iers  of  the  contemplated 
Next,  in  which  of  these 


his  calling  through 
lg,  tasting,  seeing,  and 
the  Scotchman,  offered 


;ar  i/uil-      I.  >y   Unv.ks  ilia:.! 
.    A  most  substantially  and 
flexibly  good  man  w;is  Ferguson,  like  all  Scot 

ery  other  Scotchman,  reprobate  o 


bci  ;u 

last  de- 

tropical  thtindcr-guBt 


gree.     And  eft 

more  suddenly,  unexpcctcaiy,  anu  violently  so. 
Upon  Mr.  Ferguson  Guy  Brooks  counted  confi- 
dently as  upon  a  very  oaken  beam  in  the  pro- 
posed church  organization,  but,  as  a  host  of  the 
pastor  thereof?  No.  The  lawyer  did  not  enter- 
tain the  idea  one  instant.  Suppose  the  guest 
should  derange,  should  injure,  should  lose  a 
Number  from  Mr.  Ferguson's  collection?  The 
very  possibility  of 


lfficient  to  settle  t 
Ir.  Ferguson  has 


;  proposed  c 


be  expl  i-inci!  before  we  can  prr-.—-;         _ 
t„  \f-  tt™™--'-  <-"»um  existed  the  instinct 

magpie.  We  au  know  what  a  passion  it  has  tor 
stealing  and  secreting  bits  of  jaw  cotton  shreds 
of  rags,  fragments  of  potterv,  articles  of  j  .wclrv, 
and  the  like.     There  is  a  story  afloat  in  works 


■  of  auloL'i'iipbs,  ] 
I  books,  and  the  li 


.  Ferguson.    A  Scoich- 


lio  had  collected  into  a  body  every 
he  subject  of  Infant  Baptism  he  bad 
Dr  read  of.  It  mny  have  begun  hist 
:  collection,  quietly  and  innocently 


books  and  thin  hooks,  and  in  every  possible  style 
of  binding.  Pamphlets,  loo,  of  all  shapes,  sizes, 
and  ages  upon  the  subject.  Files  of  all  sach 
newspnpers  also  as  contained  articles  upon  the 
subject,  and  the  wholo  collection  patched,  pasted, 
annotated,  in  every  stage  of  wear  and  discolor- 
ation. Then  there  were  hound  volumes  of  let- 
ters he  had  evoked  from  reverend  and  irreverent 
sources,  in  all  degrees  of  angry  pro  and  recrimin- 
ating con.  A  bulky  scrap-book  or  two  contained 
every  flying  anecdote,  paragraph,  item,  cut  right 
ondleft,  from  every  paper  which  he  had  ever 
como  upon  bearing  upon  tho  one  theme.     Ono 

-sV.,,1  aina/.ed  !■>  L -h-  I -i  how  much  h:u;  X-  '»  -  id 
upon  tbe  subject  in  the  world,  and  turned  away 

question  remained  as  unsettled  as  ever.  The 
plain  fact  is,  Mr.  Ferguson  rook  hiiidly  tbe  slight- 
est interest  in  the  subject  discussed  itself— it  was 
in  his  collection  upon  the  subject  that  his  inter- 

''"Si  and  it  would  sicken  him,  t~  for  life 
of  the  whole  subject!"  laughed  £7  £»°kj.  to 

himself  t        1     I      ^    T  r    ,    , 

of  a  room  in  lib  ho»?f  J^e  d  minister, 

"Y.V. ,'''-,  ,m''.'iiow  of  my  collection  none  the 
,  1      ^-u  surely  no  room  in  Somerville  could 


ew  that  no  amount  of  huff  on  his 

provoke  any  tiling  but  amusciueni 

good-nature  on  the  part  of  the  frauk  and 

hearted  lawyer. 

There  was  Dr.  Warner,  also.    He,  too,  v 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  17,  1866. 


There  w:r-  not 
;le  than  his,  nor 

n  the  front-yard, 


man,  and  member  of  the  church.  And  who 
knows  but  lie  might,  be  able  to  influence  even 

JJnl.  ri...'^  Bui  Hi-'  In  wver,  charitable  „nd  hopeful 
ns  be  was,  shook  his  head  even  na  lie  Biiid  it. 
The  squat  figure  of  flit'  (Lionel  stood  before  his 


IlgK 

men  applauded  the  Colonel's; 
red  ghtdl\   pigs,  turkeys,  and  I. 


and  iJ:m.'.rbr.-if--,  mid  voted  I 
office  he  demmide..!  rnth?r  1 
hands. 


;sk 


,  l.,M'"i(-    lie  spoke  out.     It  t 


"I  have  thought  of  the  hotel,  of  Ferguson,  of 
Dr.  -Warner,  even  of  Colonel  Bet  Roberts,  be- 
sides   every   other  place   possible,"   said  Gay 


"Hew  old  did  y< 


n  the  subject?"  asked 
somewhere  under  thir 


e  Theological  Semi- 
te to  us  for  the  pur- 
1  "='-     In  reply  Mr. 


ar-  r-m  thwaht  of  Mrs.  Bowles?"  in 
Mrs.  Sorel,  at  length, 
ho  vciy  person  1"   ex-lahned  the  lawyer 


t  delicto,  retiring  lady  e 


(iK'C    B'.wl.'S  'irr  ll|.i  ''1    l.l.d'niv    !l 

the  idiiKT  of  the  yard.  Tile  • 
a  memlKii-  of  the  |,r„],osc.l  el 
,1  rhink  she  would  consent  to 

vav."  And  the  lawyer  took  i 
"Tlirre  mielit   be  one  objoc 

o'rl.  a'coinii vint;  lea"  vi-ito 

"What,  whateau  it  be?"  ii 

K  suddenly.      Mrs.  Sorel  sinil 

nlinued  knitting. 


|    J.  C.    B„«|,- 


',"""  7," 
'.'-I '"!- 


frank  lawyer,  laughii 

"Do   we,    Mr.  Br< 

do,"  said  quiet  Mrs.  ! 

— qm io  confident  rather. 

"You  would  not  really  advise  against 
Bowles  on   that   account  ?"   asked   the    lav 


b?      Wc 


'  should  not  have  men- 
Good-even  i 


on'l   U-f.  rue  detain  von.      <j 1-cvfinnL'  !  ' 

■  wise,  j,jui  id  smile  was  still  on  her  face 

■ft",   nonsense  !     It  is  to  be  hoped  he  will 


<>f  miv  tiling  els.  ;  sensible  lady  like  Mrs.  Sorel, 
inn;  '  Got  u,,,  Charley!"  and  wiih  an  hhikcc-'- 
sary  cut  of  his  whip  the  Kentuckian  cantered 
hurl;  i rife i  Somervillo. 

Mrs.  Bowles  came  into  the  arrangement  the 
moment  the  lawyer  mentioned  it,  which  he  did 
with  characteristic  promptitude  that  same  even- 
But  it  was  after  having  most  clearly  and  dis- 
tinctly ascertained  from  the  lawyer  that  the  ex- 
pected minister  was  not  from  the  North,,  but 
from  Virginia,  horn,  raised,  educated  there. 
Good  I  If  any  spot  on  the  globe  could  be  said 
to  stand  next  to  South  Carolina,  in  Mrs.  Bowles's 
estimation,  it  was  Virginia.  "Though  1  have  a 
great  admiration  for  Kentucky  also,"  Mrs.  Bowles 


The  truth  is,  Mrs.  Bowles  was  enthusiastic  in 

she  liked  enthusiastically— could  not  sec,  would 
not  hear  or  believe  any  thing  to  the  contrary. 
And,  it  must  be  added,  if  she  disliked  she  dis- 

would  permit.  It  so  happened  that  Mrs.  Sorel 
and  herself  were  from  the  same  neighborhood  in 

South  Caiolma,  had  been  sehool-gi  " 
Yet  it  was  singular  that  the  same  sc 
duce  two  persons  so  unlike,    Mrs.  Sc 


■  together. 
c«uld  pm- 

.  Bowles  rather 
petite  and  spiritual  in  face  and   figure,  uncon- 
strained, full  of  lively  fancies,  impulsive,  quick- 
thoroughly  ladies  in   the 
igly  attached  to 


,  grave, 


oveiA    thine,  of  inijnn  tancc— mm 

the  death  of  her  husband,  the  Major. 

I  wish  our  story  could  pause  long  enougl 
permit  us  to  sav  a  little,  or  rather  a  good  ( 
about  Major  J.'C.  Bowles.      You  can  gathci 


!  gentleman  he  appears  t 
jmewhat  stiff  portrait  ir 
;ngih  painting,  from  whit 
ig  in  silent  grandeur  in 
Hie.     Often  did  the  young  i 


■■  parlor  at  Somer- 


afternoons 

tie  biography  of  the  man  himself,  but  a  vast  deal 
f  national  history,  too,  in  that  imposing  por- 

^ Evidently  a  commanding  man  the  Major  wan, 


;  ooll  ■ 


the 


a  royal  duke.  The  painting  in  question  rep- 
ented him  thuB;  the  gold-headed  cane  pie- 
ited  him  by  his  constituents  after  his  great 

,  Revolution  hamrin*  on  «£5in3!J^"n 

.,.,'ni  rivud.'-s. 

■  yourself,  dear 


Yes,"  ad.led  the  lew- 


VTt^J, 


C.  IJr.wles  was  a  genuine  gentleman  to  rhe  cen- 
tre of  his  soul.  Colonel  Ret  Roberts  was  a  tal- 
ented, highly  talented  man.  Major  J.  C.  Bowles 
was  not, "even   a  little  dull.      With  Colond  Ret 

death  that  South  Ca.  dina  was  the  first  State  on 

Colonel,  however,  the  Major  never  in  his  life 
cursed  and  commended  to  eternal  perdition,  as 
the  Colonel  did  every  day  of  his  life,  whoever 
and  whatsoever  was  in  conflict  with  him  on  this 
point.  That  Calhoun  was  the  superior  of  Web- 
ster Major  Bowles  never  entertained  the  slight- 
est doubt ;  yet  Webster  was  a  rational,  respect- 


>  Colo 


which  rolls  the  start,  b..rh  heartily 
yet  Major  Bowles  IV-d,  elorbed,  cared  f< 
C)-of.--   like.  i|,e  C'livi-riau  gentleman   he  \ 

oig  liirns'-ll'  to  if,  with  a  deep  scire  of 


Colonel    Ret 


only  speaking    : 
Colonel     1M      |. 


,   to   be  HOik-il   1 


a!,K  -,,,,„■ 


,1  , 1, 1 


•  specially  rigid  notions 


•iuuiillv,  a.  thin;:  f 


stake.     Nor  die 


Colonel 

portant.  political   object   was 

Major  Bowles  admire  any  Pi 

to  morals ;  yet  he  never  would  have  soiled  r 

fingers  with   the  greasy  cards,   the  dirty  die 

box,  the  dripping  gin-tumbler  with  which  C< 


profat 


this  ) 


sCok 


elr.."!iant»|,i.'.n 


the  puppies  littered  in 
his  kennels.  And  the  Major  had  as  supreme  an 
adoration  for  honor  as  the  Colonel ;  but  it  was  a 
principle  which  would  have  made  him  blush  to 
leave  a  debt  unpaid,  or  to  do  even  a  deed  of 
doubtful  honesty,  wherein  the  Colonel  differed 
from  him  amazingly  in  practice.  As  behooved 
gentlemen  of  honor,  both  had  "been  out", with 
The  Major  had  gone  .nit  only 
'  id  then  had  eoMk  R.\ 
bearing,  after- 


i  grossly  inBulti 


waid   firing   > 
oilier    band, 


;■■:. 


But  why  speak  of  Major  J.  C.  Bow  k-s  ? 
he  not  waste  his  e'iaie  ivilli  inn  prodigal  an 
pi  tali  ty,  too  utter  a  devotion  to  politic*,  at 
sniiside,  in  his  later  years,  first  into  wha 
niained  of  his  large  property,  a  small  hor 
Charleston,  and  a  practice  at  the  bar,  for  v 

tie  to  succeed,  and  then  into  his  grave  the 
V.  Michael'*  cluirch-vard?  Had  he  but 
Colonel  Ret  RohortsV— what  shall  we  call  i 
some  highly-polished  synonym  for  rasealit 
would  not  have  lost  acre  or  negro.     How 

When  somewhat  advanced  in  liib  Hie  \ 


erville.  The  Major  owned  lands 
Bowles  could  not  endure  to  take  a 
Charleston  than  her  husband  had  o 


nan.  eorei  uaa  precedea  her,  ana  Had  written, 
urging  to  the  step.  So  it  was,  that,  at  the  date 
of  our  story,  Mrs.  Bowles  was  living  in  hor  neat 
little  cottage-home  on  the  edge  of  Somerville. 
She  had  left  South  Carolina,  it  is  true,  but  the 
soil  was  all  of  the  State  she  had  left  behind  her. 
The  young  minister  learned  all  this,  bit  by  bit, 
after  his  arrival.  Welcomed  at  the  hotel  door, 
as  ho  stepped  from  the  stage,  by  Guy  Brooks,  he 
and  the  lawyer  were  at  home  with  each  other 
from  that  moment ;  for  whore  people  are  sincere 


The  < 


had 


brushed,  dined,  and  introduced  if 
within" tn^yflrnCr'  1?1,i'S  ^  halfaduzenmoie 

said  to  him,  in  his  frank,  hearty  way.    •■  w«  an 
all  fragment*  of  the  church  that  is  to  be.     Dr 

VTurncr  here  is  ready  to  doctor  you  the  momen 


t  of  much  use.     Ho 


Somerville,"  growled  Mr.  Ferguson  to  hiins 
The  afornonn  of  his  arrival— ''Why  not?" 


at  n  neat,  home-like  place!"  the  new. 
id  to  him-tlC  as  they  entered  the  front 
advanced  along  the  graveled  walk   he- 


front,  of  rhe  residence,  admitting  to  a  hull 
which  rooms  communicated  on  either  side, 
was  a  May  morning  when  the  new-comer  s 
there,    inhaling    the   fragrance   of  jasmine 


varmed  bv  a  glowing 

i  small  family,  Mr.  Ar 

Rutledgc  Bowles,  m\ 

i-   nl    college    "1  Ci.lumliia."     Mrs.  I 

s  but  that  one  Colum 

world.     • 

Jlv, 

at  that  in 

reeded  along  the  gra 

>'"  "<■  ■-■'• 

on? 

v  open  the  parlor  door, 

her  hair  a 

And  the  liev 

Edward  Arthur  was  i 

Th.se  were  the 


Thou  wilt  chill  him 
Pierce  bis  heart  wit 
Slotvlv  crush  him  w 
Of  alternate  bliss  at 


From  thine  eyes,  Sweet?— only  , 
These  were  the  Valentines  we  sped, 


THE   WHISPER-BOOM. 


Seated  in  a  low  chair,  under  a  waving  cluster  of 
laburnums,  was  a  girl,  apparentlyeighteen  years  old. 
Her  hand  held  listlessly  an  open  book ;  but  her  eyca 
wore  fixed  on  the  blue  expanse  of  eoa  that  stretched 
which  Houseley  Lawn  coin- 


fai   awa; 

rich  niRi=BP8  of  light-brown  hair  glinting  gnld  in  t 


The  French  windows  of  tha  drawing-room  were 
brown  noisily  open,  and  a  tall  girl,  ruther  older  than 
he  whom  we  have  described,  camo  hurriedly  dowfl 


1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


m  in  affluent  circumstances.  She  was  a  woman  of 
re  talent,  tact,  and  generosity,  and  very  popular 
fh  ikindnes-  and  charming  manners.    Her  house 


quer  parties  wore  perfection. 

Lucy  Harwich  n-:is  Hie  daughter  of  t 

eo'uirand   of  the   eua-t-guard.   a  vet  in  il  ■ 


thren's  share.  His  wile,  too,  i 
lighter  was  what  is  termed  a  "  1 
-vasabeau'y,  very  daring  and 


of  sreel-clad  warriors,  who-e  swords  had  been  fore- 
most, in  every  field  of  faiej.-h  hat. tie  from  thai  of 
Hastings.  The  manors  of  his  house  had  stretched 
through  half  a  comity,  and  the  holders  of  tbem  bad 
b  en  repeat  dly  offer ■  il  a  peerage. 

But  with  him  fortune  had  dealt  hardly.  But  one 
old  manor-house  and  a  hundred  acres  of  land  re- 
mained to  him  of  all  his  ancestors'  territory.      His 


not  unexpected  hy  the  young  ladies  of  the  locality, 
"  Let  ub  go  to  Vrayville  Towers,"  said  Lucy,  im- 
petuously; "the  ruins  are  splendid,  and  the  legend 
wonderful." 

■•  l.n.-v,  '  -aid  Agatha,  snftlv. 
Vraie's  family.      Look  at  him.' 
Lucy  did  look  at 


■  i.-M..«  !' 


r-i^bbor.      "COIl>H 

ee„  in  l.iF  famih 
"I'll   cousole   1 


ini,"   laughed    Lucy,  and  ; 
across  the  room  to  Harold  St.  Vraie's  side, 
-h.v  Miss  Agatha  my  winning  colors,"  she  si 
iiev-eK,  mentally. 


r  ,  k,-v  in  wlii-.:ti  :-!ie  ~V<-1<\  and  droppine  In-i 
dark  eveia^hes  over  lier  violet  eyes  with  a  timid 
Hsp  et,~''for  mv-dnpidiic  in  proposing  Hie  vi-ir.  I 
on. dit  to  have' rememhered  all  that  you  must  re- 
member when  Vrayville  is  mentioned." 

"The  stupidity's  mine,  Miss  Harwich,"  inter- 
rupted StVrai-.  with  i  -tnih-.  ^I-  morl-d  -  -1 
|,,  uo.^avendin.h.us.  Nevermind  them.  We'll 
,«,  io  VrawiUe,  and  I  can  lea. I  the  e\|.hm--r-  ov.t 
everc  comer  and  tell  all  I  he  1-uvud-  -ii  Me  Thorpe 
will  allow  me,"  he  added,  with  a  slight  sneer. 

He  might  have  been  excused  for  this;  for  this 
Mr.  Thorpe,  who  had  purchased  Yray.  illo  for  the 


was  as  chaw  of  .-bowing  il 
nre-^alhMV  and  his  ganlens. 
old   pcrmiwon  to  sketch 


old  ruins  which 
seven  centimes,  and 


and  Si.  Vraie. 

"I  admire 

himself,  ash 


I   .-.-ri-.s'Kil v   lie   enslaved  by 
eyed,   brown-haired  Ix "  '"         " 
trust  and  stately  quiet 

Agatha' 


U     I    Old 

:  hazel- 
What'a  calm  self- 


ustomed  demeanor  deceived  n 
and  slow  of  feeling,  she  was 
g  emotions.     For  him  who  wc 


t  Agatha  would  be  a  very  heroine  of  story  in 
her  lofty  love. 

The  next  dav  the  picnic  party  started  on  horse- 
back.   On  his  black  mare,  thorough-bred  and  glossy- 
coated  as  Batin,  Harold  looked  like  the  knightly 
"  "    ,  Norman,  a-;  he  galloped   ..long 
,....„  „t  the  ruins  called  the  abbey  cloisters,  and 
which  formed  an  ancient  burial-ground,  most  of  the 
ill        ross.     St.  Vraie,  with  a 


Miss  Harwich  replied  by  a  winning  smile,  and  the 
two  rode  on.  Now,  8he  was,  to  a  certain  extent, 
fond  of  Harold,  and  of  his  long  descent;  but  Bhe 
was  a  good  deal  fonder  of  herself,  and  she  had  heard 
her  moihar  positively  assert  that  morning  the  fact 
of  Harold's  heirship  to  an  "  Aunt  Clinton's"  proper- 
jousand  a  vear.     Otherwise, 


erv  low,  her  sympathy  very  marked,  Harold'-  ad- 
dition of  her  heautv  great,  and  his  ■ 
ueestral  pride  very  potent.      In  an  impulstv 
ieot  he  proposed  and  was  accepted.  _ 
They  reached  the  picnic  party. 


nhering  ho  was  au 


1  What  old  tower's  that  ?"  said  Sir  Harry,  iling- 
a  Champagne  cork  toward  it. 
"  Har—  Mr.  St.  Vraie  can  tell  you,"  said  Mrs. 


productive.     The  "  Lyon's  I'voeess,"  that  promises  I 

being  tested  near  Central  City.      If  suc- 
cessful, Colorado  will   he  the  greatest  Stale   in  the 


to  von  till  vou  believe  'em,  St.  Vraie." 

The  other's  haughty  lace  Hushed  red  with  anger, 

ves  Hushed  fiercely. 

it  that  tower  is  merely  one  of 

■  replied.   \ui!i  loieed  ea  lnuie- -. 

"  Let's  have  it — let's  have  it !  '  said  Mr.  Hawkins, 

idly,  tho  sun  ar 

1  ('hanip:mue  having  acted  un- 

Harold  made  no 

auswer,  till  fcnev  Harwich  -aid, 

"  Won  t  you  te 

me,  Harold?" 

His  proud  face 

oftened,  and  he  answered,  quiot- 

>\\er  where  Hugh  St.  Vraie  shut 

i  his  guilty  Mil 

Lucy,  till   she  died,  three  him- 

liked.     Her  blue  c 


ghiugly  making  the  gentlemen  go  lir.-t, 
the  whole  party  trooped,  till  they  found  themselves 
in  a  large  room,  leading  out  to  an  ancient  terrace  of 
stone,  and  connected  by  a  passage  with  a  smaller 


'What  is  the  secret  of  this  place?"  said  Lucy. 
■  f  shall  leave  3-01.1  all  to  find  out,"  ho  laughed; 
t  least,  I'll  tell  you.  Lucy,  presently.     I  must  go 


the  passage  reflected  hack  the  lowest  whisper  uttered 
in  1  he  large  voom  inf 

Harold  St.  Vraie  ra-sed  ha-tilv  in  v.  illi 
his  lips,  for  he  thought  Lucy 


heard  Mrs.  Harwich's  voice. 

"My  dear.  I've  made  a  dreadful  ini-lakc 
Sir  Harry  who's  to—" 

"Not  to  succeed   to  the  property  vou.  -a 


Agatha  Clare  turned  her  face  away  to  avoid  seeing 
St.  Vraie's.      His  featimw  were  ghastly  pale,  and 

bis  resolution  was  soon  taken,  and  his  face  grew 
stern  and  composed.  Turning  to  Agatha,  whose 
hazel  eyes  were  full  of  soft  compassion,  he  said, 
with  difficulty : 

"You'll  keep  the  secret,  Miaa  Clare?" 
She  bowed,  and  he  passed  out.     As  he  entered 
the   large   room   Lucy  was  saying,  passionately, 
■  Tied  irrevocably!" 

"No,  Miss  Harwich, "said  St.  Vraie, 
while  mother  and  daughter  were  overwhelmed  with 
confusion.     "  The  secret  of  these  rooms— the 
peviug-gallery— -has  put  : 


-he 'and  her  crest-falli 

eonrt-vaid,  whence,  under  the  plea  of  fatigi 
soon  drove  off,  tl 
Agatha  Clare 


and  humble  deference 
He  rode  home  by  her  side  that  evening, 

ward  he  was  a  frequent 


CENTRAL  CITY,  COLORADO. 

CEKTRAb  Cmr,  Colorado 

situated  among  the  Bock; 
natural  centre  of  the  gre 

Colorado.      MdlionB  o!   dollar-  of  Ea-teru 

circle  the  town.    The 

mentonthepartofE: 


ST.  VALENTINE 


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[Fbdri'art  17,  18(56. 


ABOARD  THE  "PROMISED  LAND.' 


t  Lloyd's,  and  wbb  ti 
-ed's  Docks.  Many  I 
lost  appetizing  advcrti 


„    v.  ,     ,   :,, 

11  pie  of  officers  and 


She'd  stand  any  thing,  Sir.      Go  t 


i  mo.     Somewhcro  off 

;side,  with  two  passen- 
own ;  servo  'cm  right, 
a  vessel  in  her  course  ! 
have  been  making  a 
pany,  and  perhaps  stop 


'We  areallh  re?"  said  the  barrister;  "a  differ- 
B  to  the  fire'  day,  eh  ?  By-the-way,  whore's  the 
ivesend  lady?     She  that  woke  us  up  out  of  our 

p — eh,  captain?" 

he  captain  auswered  gruffly  that  he  did  not 

'  You  should  have  all  your  passengers  here,  cap- 

■  k:i'h "g  in  1  :cd — in  berth,  I  mean— it's  bad  for 

Hie  Scotch  captain  shook  himself  at  this, 

'  We'll  have  none  o'  that,  aboard.      No  favor  or 


?-'"fJ:yv  tl.er-,  and  tea  and  bri 
i  hu  cjpuia  almost,  lwpad,  up  y 


emu.       My  orders  defied  by  an;. 

!  for  all.     That's  logic,  Mr.  Col 

>,  too,"  said  that  gentleman, 
ship  before,  everv  thing.      Ant 
thai  lady— what's  her  name?" 


"  Why,"  said  the  captain,''  whatV.  there  in  i 
Mr.  Colter  seemed  to  he  a-hamed  of  having  f 
i  or  shown  surprise. 

"  Nothing,"  he  said.  "There's  a  leading  < 
oil  know— Arlington  and  Houker— very  ncarh 
ime  pnint  as  tho  rule  in  Shelley's  case,  but 


d<y-light  of  my  berth, 
1  through  the  storm)— v 
nd  take  her  meals  with  ti 


st  as  the  covert  were  taken  off  a  little  n 
card,  and  a  tall,  graceful  lady  stood  at  t 
king  down  tho  long  tablo  as  if  for  a  plat 
i-ery  neatly  cut  out  of  the  great  human  m 
ight— was  in  a  purple  silk— had  a  ve 
je  and  features— soft  hair,  with  a  tit 
lu  seemed  almost  ae  shy  as  a  girl,  ai 
o-and-thirty  years  of  age.       The  lawy 


elpless.    Captain  Magrt 


She  a] mo.- 1-  started  out  of  her  sent,  a  .-I  range  wild- 
ess  came  into  her  eyes,  with  a  dash  of  fury,  as  she 
ent  over  to  the  barrister. 

"  What  do  you  mean  ?"  she  said,  in  a  thick  voice. 


He  looked  to  her,  i 
speechless  gratitude. 


ju.'i  nth-rod  the  words,  '•  Me  is  dead  !  how  ui 
.■Mid  lK:i.ted  av.av  mil  of  the  saloon. 

Many  reproaebful   eyes  were  turned  on  t 


Iter,"  said  fUe  captai 


who   shook  himself  angrily,  like  ; 

"  Expect  every  one  to  be  on  tit 

Pmmi'i'l  Land"  ho  said,  roughly. 


t  in  future  yon  will  find  me  the 

your  passengers." 

'  Well,  I  hope  bo,"  ho  said.     Get  this  lady  bc 

fhe  barrister,  who  had  his  eye  on  her  all  I 

le,  said  to  her,  graciously: 

1  Hope  yon  have  not  suffered  during  the  rot 


"  I  alwavs  suffer.  I  am  almost  always  a  mar- 
tyr." 

"Why,"  said  the  Scotch  captain,  "we  know 
that  you  weren't  ill  during  the  storm,  for  you  had 
your  meals  in  regularly,  and  this  gentleman  here 
saw  you  sitting  up,  reflected  in  some  way  on  his 
(dry-light,  reading  away,  when  it  was  blowing  great 
guns.     Now?*' 

She  raised  her  eyes  from  her  plate  and  turned 
them  steadily  on  the  barrister.  He  helped  himself 
to  wine— very  coolly. 

"You  are  determined  to  be  hard  on  poor  me, 
Captain  Magregor, "  she  said.  "  I  did  not  say  that 
I  was  sick,  but  that  I  was  almmt  always  sick.  I 
will  even  appeal  to  that  gentleman  who  need  reflect- 
ors to  see  how  I  employed  my  time." 

laughed.      "That's  putting  it  very 


•  trongly  against    me.       But  if 
reflector   the  other   night  when   our   vessel   was 
stopped,  and  mysterious  passengers  came  on  board, 
What  do  you  say, 


She  almost  slar'ed.  looked  at  him,  then  answered 
tearlily,  vitli  her  wond>  rful  eyes  on  him  :' 

'■  Well,  yes,  suppling  we  were?" 

"Oh,  certainly,"  said  he,  with  great  politeness ; 
'I  have  no  right  to  put  inquisitive  questions." 


with  a  sinilo  which  Wi 


1  necessity.     From  Gravesend,  I 


'  looked  in  an  Army  List." 


eager  barrister,  '•  1 
iot:  It  was  a  mere 
lme  was  Arlington. 


very'  acceptable.     It  • 


.    mvfl   If;     but. 


my  e 


captain  leaning  against  the  mainmast,  with  a,  lady 
in  a  little  hood  talking  to  him.  I  knew  both  hood 
and  lady.  Presently  they  began  to  walk  about, 
and  the  captain  pointed  out  this  "stay"  and  that 
rope.  In  all  these  things  she  seemed  to  take  an 
eager  interest,  and  I  could  see  was  asking  all  sorts 
answered  very  readily,  and 


stood  up  on  the  forecastle 
down   on    the   hissing  wr 


could  have  done,  and  looked  like 
leaning  on  the  side  of  the  vessel, 
this  attitude,  when  I  heard  a  voice 
"A  fine  morning !"     It  was  Mr. 


vond  "  ("iund-inoniing:  '  but  thai  was  s. 
air  of  defiance. 

That  day  the  luggage  "wanted  on  t 


ing  for  passengers,  and  a  remarkably  busy  and 
amusing  scene.     Every  one  got  up  his  trunk,  and 

things  are  welcome  upon  a  voyage.  Every  one 
was  unlocking  and  unpacking,  even  the  great  Chan- 
cery barrister,  Mr.  Colter,  Q.C. 

At  dinner  we  were  all  in  great  spirits.  The  cap- 
lain  had  given  Champagne,  which  was  much  en- 
joyed by  the  lady  who  sat  near  him.  Her  eyes 
began  to  sparkle,  and  she  talked  very  pleasantly 
and  with  great  animation.  I  noticed  that  Captain 
Magregor  listened  with  extraordinary  attention  to 
every  thing  she  said,  spoke  very  little  himself,  not 
beloved  ship. 


"We  . 


the  I 


,  Bayly, 


ur  hard  work  to-day.     Excellent  «  i.ue  i 
should  drink,  Mr.  Colter,  to  our  full  an. 


your  animosity  to  me.     Will  you  promise  ?" 

"Certainly,"  he  answered,  merrily,   "with  all 
my  heart.     I  am  deeply  penitent.     I  feel  aa  if  I 

told  to  attend  at  the  sitting  of  his  lordship  to-mor- 
row. Indeed,  how  could  I  feel  any  thing  but  cord- 
ial good-will  to  a  person  about  whom  I  am  begin- 
ning gradually  to  know  every  thing  !" 

'ery  thing?"  she  said,  a  frown  coming 
'     ' '  ''ou  are  beginning  again.    Now, 

"but  we  have  not  drunk  our 


"Champagne,  ma'am?"  said  tb< 

"No,"  she  said,  fiercely,  "IT. 

you.     I'll  have  no  reconciliation." 


1  Would  you  like  to  hear,"  she  went  on,  calmlv, 

hold,  and  half  tore  off  a  card.     I  Baw  it  wouldn't 

1  my  birth-place,  names  of  relations,  age  next  birth- 

stay on  a  minute,  and  really  with  the  beBt  inten- 

day, and  other  particulura  according  to  a  census  pa- 

tions, though  you  won't  credit  it,  took  it  off.     On 

per?" 

Tho  barrister  put  up  his  hands  to  his  face. 

a  very  pretty  band.     On  the  back  wa«,  '  To  be  left 

''Serve  me  right,"  ho  said;  "a  capital  hit well 

at  Captain  Arlington'B,  Grove  Villa.  Chatham.    Sev- 

en and  sixpence  to  pay.      11/6/63.*    (You  know 

"Ah!"  said  she,  laughing;  "I  wish  to  hit  no- 

the odd  way  they  write  that.)     Tho  very  day  be- 
fore  our  vessel  sailed.     Obviously  the  trunk-mak- 

body, provid>  d  thoy  do  not  bit  me." 

er's  bill  for  a  lock  or  repaire." 

She  almost  ground  her  teeth,  and  the  wine  Bhook 

But  I  dont  think  ho  had.     For  at  tea  that  night 

"You  will  not  stop  till  yon  get  a  lesson,"  Bho 

ic  wild  ;  "  I  am  incorrigible,     I  belong  to  the  law. 

said,  grimly.     "  I  am  not  a  woman  to  let  myself 

So  that  ia  my  excuse.      You  know  the  challenge 

bp  persecuted,     I  can  do  nothing  myself;  but  if  I 

von  gave  ,„„  about  a  census  paper?     Well,  I  have 

ask  other  gentlemen"— and  she  looked  at  Captain 

"'""  w»ikj:.g  mv  had  eve,   since,  as  I  should  do 

Magregor—"!  am  sore  they  will  help  me.      Per. 

norn-  !  hapa  fhe  npxt  tiling  yon  will  toll  us  at. 
vidod  I  you  have  opened  my  little  trunk  and  se 
"I  think," said  Captain  Mairrogor,  wl 
;  that  I  appealed  to,  ")™  might  lot  ihic  Wiv- 


ing lo  it.     Would  that  card  have  dropped  off  a 

"  At  a  touch,"  said  Mr.  Wilson. 
"  Did  I  save    it  from   dropping    back    into   I 
hold?" 

"  You  did,"  said  Mr.  Wilson. 

"Who  was  it  first  perceived  that  there  was  wi 

"There;"  said  Mr.  Colter,  calmly.  "So  m„ 
for  looking  into  this  lady's  trunks.  As  for  my  i 
mark  yesterday  .about  the  husband  of  this  lady 
looked,  out  of  the  merest  idle  curiosity,  to  see  1 
rank  and  regiment,  in  an  Army  List-^-" 

"An  Army  List!"  she  repeated,  starting. 

"Yes,' he  went  on.  "An  Army  List  nftht  prf& 
month,  and  this  is  oulv  the  seventeenth,  and  I  foil 
him  there.  But  that,  of  course,  must  be  a  printe 
error  (these  things  are  edited  so  carelessly),  for 
think  we  understood  you  to  say  your  husband  is  r 
alive  ?" 

"Then  I  mistook,"  he  went  on.  "Now,  that 
being  so,  I  appeal  to  the  .  onipmy  whether  our  ex- 
eel!  ii'  captain  has  noi  tray.  1.  .1  a  little  '  c-vnnd  wlat 
is  proper  in  the  way  he  has  spoken  to.mc.      Really 

on"  of  yamr  p  ople  with  n  grievance,  and  were  to 
being  tbe  mater  oibu.ally  before  my  frind  .Sir 
Cliails  Robinson,  chairman  of  the  company,  he 
mL.hl  liu.k  .ai  ir  rat  her  -eriou-ly.  Now.  I  put.  it  to 
our  captain,  a  brave  man,  and  one  of  the  best  sea- 
m  ii  guiiiL'.  v.  h  i her  be  has  not  been  n  little  rough 
with  me  to-day." 

The  captain  colored. 

"Well,"  said  he,  -perhaps  1  sooho  too  strongly, 
and  perhaps  yon  are  right,  Mr.  Colter.  You  know 
I  have  great  responsibility." 

The  look  of  anger  and  contempt  the  lady  gave 
him  i\a-  hey.uid  d'-HTi prion.     She  rose  at  once. 

"I  see  you   have   deserted   me,"  she  said,  in  a 

go  on   deck  and  make   the  wind  and   the  sea  my 
friends.     They,  indeed,  are  faithful." 
And  she  passed  out.     In  about  ten  minutes  the 


Verj 


The   b 


■  lady. 


eery  pleasant  on  the  subject. 
■  have  got  so  into  th  habit  v\  putihiL'  this  mi  1 
together,"  he  said,  "that  really  I  can't  help 
speculating,  and  billowing  out  mv  speculations  iii 
this  way.  Now,  ihL  l.idy.  ih-ai-h  j  really  may  be 
putting  inv-eli'  in  bodily  ri-k  (.!'•■!■  who  know-  hoiv 
she  may  turn  out?  and  she  gives  me  such  wicked 
looks),  is  really  quite  like  a  child's  puzzle  to  me; 
and  positively  I  must  put  it  jpgether  successfully 
before  the  voyage  is  out."    - 

There  was  a  rustle  behind  us,  and  she  was  stand- 
ing at  the  top  of  the  table.  She  had  heard  him. 
There  was  the   same   twitch   of   vexation    in    her 


of  puzzles  too." 

"Nothing  can  be  fain 
He  was  walking  on  c 


"Oh   soel.-N.-er!   with  such  a  reputation  as  y 


the  passengers  in  di&gnst.  The  captain  came  aboard 
our  vessel  in  his  long  boat,  and  was  presently  sur- 
rounded by  a  group  asking  him  all  manner  of  ques- 
tions, which  provided  a  great  subject  of  di*eu-sion 
at  dinner  that  day.  After  dinner,  Mr.  Colter  said, 
in  his  gay  way,  "  While  you  were  all  talking  to  the 
captain,  I  got  hold  of  the  steward,  and  secured  a 
couple  of  English  newspapers.     What  do  you  say 


at?     I  t 


,  except —  Keep:- 


■.hi    gfor  his  bit  o 


1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


all  gathered  on  tbe  deck, 


all,"  said  Captain   Ma- 
s  at  Portsmouth.     Yes 


I  see,"  said  tho  c 
3  the  murderer  a 

ptnin. 

sergeant— one  Ridley?" 

id  von  And  that  o 
v.  thatalWiappenc 

hanged  In-  this  ti 
1,  well,"  said  Mr 

yen!"  said  Mr.  Colter. 

1  before  we  left  England. 
eek  before.      The  fellow 

Colter,  laving  down  his 
it  all  up.     I  am  getting 

r  abated  in  his  atten- 


j  the  lady, 


He  had  Wi  ml  hi-  <■ 
f.-r  li-  pbi[>.  and  never  talked  of  her  in 
and  aft-  rti.mate  wily.  On  the  other  ham 
out  his  ■  iew  of  studying  ■  v  rv  thing  th 
his  way,  Mr.  Oiler  had  latl.  rl\  takr-n  ; 
cat  in   ihe  whip,  and  all   about    her.  "  \w 


&  of  navigation  in  a  very 
short"  time.  Even  the  mate  pronounced  that  he'd 
i  reckoning  '*afora  lo-morrow  next  day." 
;  alwnvs  his  way  Mr.  Colter  said,  "  be- 
r  added,  'who  knows  but  a  navigation 
■ht  be  briefed  to  mo?  Last  year  !  had  a 
ase,  and  I  made  up  all  the  chemicals  in  a 
Bv-and-hx  the  mate's  prophecy  actually 
io.  and  Mr.  Colter  worked  out  the  ship's 
-  for  S.iin^-h"  in  a  verv  .-ariedactory  way. 


lis  was  a  real  incident,  and  wa=  t.dk--d 
lv  and  noisilv  al  dinner.  Mr.  Colter,  to 
raptim  wa»  very  cool  and  yet.  very  sub- 
tie  their  li  tie  di-euesio.,,  quite  rakin.- 
"Such  a  mail  as  went  on  board,"  he 
t  ,,'    ip  :   wril:i:ii:   h"ni  ■  to  o  .!    i'.i  ie-'-  and 


he  went  on  gayly,  and  with   I 

o  that  poor  hu-band  in  the  barracks  a 


i  a  reckoning  wit 


Mr.  Colter,  who  was  v.  rv  friondlv  with   the   in 
urn,  Ndked  with  him  a  good  deal  about  the  ship 
her  handling,  now  walked  over 
binnacle  before  going  down.     ••>vny,  iook  nero 
Cobbett,"  be  said,  "we're  taking  a  bend  out  of  oui 
course.     Eh  ?     What  d'ye  say  ?'' 

"Yes,  we  are,  Sir,"  said  the  mate.      "What'i 
this,  Jim  ?" 

"Cnp'en  bid  me  keep  a  quarter-point  or  so  t« 


•  1...U  al  ih,. 


The  two  stood  Io.iUmi--  at 
h  captain  was  heard  through 
sho,  with  a  sort  of  dreadful 


fficors.     He  came  up  i 
cared  face. 
She  was  In  her  cabin 


•I  he  r,-,|  W,K. 


■    V<TV   odd,"    -Lid    > 


That's  what's  at  the  bottom 
it,  Sir.     I  suspect  he  wants  news,  or  something. 
"Oh,  indeed,"  said  Mr.  Colter,  and  went  do- 
both  reetloss,  and   spoke  little.       Mr.  Colter  v 
cheerful.     When  it  was  nearly  done,  a  stewai 


ihi- 


;and  see  again,"  suid  Mrs.  Ar- 


But  a  little  walk  on  deck  can  do  no  harm."  Ho 
went  up,  and  presently  many  followed,  for  curiosity 
is  stronger  than  w: 


"How  do  you 

j  I  post  them?" 


"God  forbid,"  he  answered,  laughing,  "  if  I  had 
to  read  or  look  at  ladies'  long  letters.  No,  no.  Mrs. 
Arlington,  only,  as  I  always  tell  you,  you  are  quite 
a  stndv  to  me."  He  laughed  again.  "  But  como 
now,  "he  went  on,  half  addressing  those  near  him, 
■M    ■../'remark  that  Mrs.  Arlingt 


■  did  .■■ 


t  such  an  opportunity  of  writing  to  her  husband, 
s  very  unlucky." 

n  ■  of  the  pa-.'-engora  looted!  one  at  the  other, 
■  this  time— and  really  in  part  owing  to  these 


And  the  looks  of  fur 


eion  began  to  get  among  them  about  this  lady. 

1  here  was  nothing  to  do,  monotony  was  beginning 
to  set  in,  so  that  even  a  little  suspicion  was  wel- 
come. This  little  fact,  therefore,  started  so  inno- 
cently by  Mr.  Colter,  was  taken  up  readily,  and 

-p  oulaied  over  very  i 


.  *•■■  i     itrpri-pd  l}.-i  .,  Ui.:k',i;j;  f<i     ■  Ie 

or"— were  remarkable.  Really  h"  was 
t  all  too  far.  But  he  never  seemed  to  1 
A  little  passage  that  took  pl.ire  between  them 


Mrs.  Arlington,  a»u  are  the  reason  I  am  hi 
What  is  this,  fried  collops  ?  Yes,  Mrs.  A. 
reason."  Again  she  was  in  great  confusion.  The 
ladies' eves  were  upon  her.  .  "  Now  for  the  expla- 
nation. Mrs.  Arlington  spilled  some  of  my  chocolate 
this  morning.  I  think  you  did  it  on  purpose.  The 
b-,E,j  ...id  ...a.  ei  frying  it  mi  i  always  have  itat ' 
and  I  must  say  the  lad  makeu  ii  "-a  fy  as  well  as 
n,  .  „n-n  m  ui)  and  Mrs.  .wlm^on  here  ran  a<_'.a.m-'<: 
ban,  spilleil  sonv  -d  it  and  Me.'  pom  !v,  brought  ■'■■  in 
>[■■  >v  trd  to  inv  cabin,  and  wanted  to  know  should 
he  make  more.  Of  course  I  said  no.  But  I  didn't 
even  take  what  was  left." 

1  he  public  wore  a  little  disappoints  at  this  story, 
which  they  could  not  follow.  The  only  thing  they 
on'l"ved  was  her  really  helpleBS  state  of  connieirm 
and  terror.     And  aiW  that  in.---n:n!    i ■■■■■     i'.n 

:i|  ,,„->,*  evidenilv  pi  vadt-l  ,h.«  theiv  ■,  ,i>-  ■■:  m-- 
I  ihi  eery  odd  about,  the  strange  lady.  Later,  we 
all   knew'the   ■M-'fiiiie-ition  nf  ihi-  ehnrolaie  -Wv, 

The  Promised  Ia*<d  had  now  been  some  seven  or 
eight  days  out,  and  with  fair  weather.      We  wero 
rably  well  shaken  down  Into  the  .-hip, 


The  sky-lights  over 


ie  half  darkness  had  c 
ie  saloon  looked  like  \ 

was  shining.     Many  far-  s  w> 


w  gives  you  full  pcw'T,  rap'en,  to 

nt.     We  mtitt  all  support  the  tow, 

ihe 

gal  theory  Is,  that  the  dock  of  even 

l\U!.:li-h 

1  is  a  portion  of  the  British  soil." 

The  captain  answered  nothing.     1 

lasl 

oning  we  wero  off  the  coast,  near 

ud  and  a  light-house.      But  it  was 

liearlv, 

of 

rs  was  beard  alongside,  and  the  Customs  officer? 

mo  green-looking  men  in  brigand 

ourd.      They  went  through  the  us 

HUMOUS  OF  THE  DAY. 


heard  Mr.  Culiw  talking, 
what  was  apparently  excellent  Spanish,  with  tl 
leader  of  the  party.  The  leader  was  very  obsoqu 
ous,  and  touched  his  hat  often.  Mr.  Colter  gai 
him  a  loiter  as  the  boat  went,  away— two  wore  lc 
behind  In  charge  of  the  vessel. 

Mr.  Colter  was  literally  now  regarded  as  a  beit 


Wo  shall  do  every 


Colter,    gayly.      "I    have,    however,  ft  few 

things  to  pui  together  first." 

Hope  you  enjoyed  the  voyage;1  mid  the  e 


Vhrlx.J.ohi.ily  lik-lllr  |H,[i,V., 


each  other.     "  See  the  Haver  p 
Lett,  coming  up  to  Mr.  Colter;   ' 
Nigh  on 


mate.      "  She'B  a  faster  boat,  and  won't  lie  by  foi 
us.     The  French  skipper  knows"  hie  dooty  to  ht. 

C°"  Ohfl  see,"  said  Mr,  Colter.     "  Where's  tin 
Arlington?" 

She  was  in  her  cabin.     By-and-by  some  boxe; 

„ere  coming  up  from  the  hold.     Presently  she  her 

s-lf  came,  up,  droned  in  her  shawls  and  cloaks,  an- 

i  all  her  baskets  and  packages.      "I  see,"  sau 

Colter  again. 

Perhaps  you  do,"  she  said,  "but  urn  ■  <>,   >..;<■. 


I  I  |b'~  >,'.*«    York. 

By  this  time  a  knot  of  leading 


/o  shall  overhaul  her  yet,"  he  said, 
soon  our  signals.     They  are  getting  t 
o  as  to  have  it  ready.     They  have  Bto] 


Mrs.  Arlington  was  i 
view,  but  she  looker; 
French  ship. 


rm,  and  led  him  away  dowt 

,  the  captain  going  sulkily 
y  restless  during  i    i-  inter 


ck.    The  captain 

Von     sliOi.il 


c-ting  tolerably  well  shaken  d( 
.  Cftttr  Said.     This  eighth  6 


>  cowardly— so  cruel,"  she 
it  I  know  and  can  p 


"Tell  what  you  like,"  said  the  captain,  dogged- 
-.    "  Hero's  the  vessel,  and  go  on  hoard  she  shall." 

In  fact  we  wero  now  drifting  up  beside  tiio  great 
hick  figure  of  the  French  steamer,  breathing  a.  < 


:   Ikmi   like   Ud-lminsha    Hall   , 


people  there.     "Good-by,"  said  Mr.  Colter,  good- 
hunmredly,  ' '  for  the  present.      It  seems  a  little  in- 
t  m'v  being  tbe  only  one  alhired  to  g>-  n.--hortt 
ball  bo  back  In  ihe  morning.      Good-by." 
id  what  legacy  do  you  leave  behind  't"  said  a 


,  and  a  rpiha 


111 

nly,  and  chivalr 
;  I  will  tell  vou 

^on.l    Yoa. 

.-.■•lilh-m.ui  ;' 

■■■I'id.le  npi  , 

God  forgive  vou!" 

language  1"  said 

looking  round. 

w 

"I  would  pray-; 

'■'thqrdKir'™.  Wrnln  111! 


,  „,l„...l  ,.  ■■ 

,    II,     in.,.  Mill 


hv  ..py.  ynu  :  ion  mouciiaru,  vom  ion 
ling,  ere  |,ing,  pnonUint^  *pv ;  tliis  is  the  dirty 
t  you  lo%-e !     Cnree  you,  I  f.ay  !" 


tins  of  the  ealoon  playing  on  Iter  face.) 

-Sin.-o  von  n-k  me,"  lie  -aid,  "I  sliall  tr-11  you 

mnietliing.  at  least.     Young  William  Arlington, 

"  Was?"  she  repeated,  faltering. 


"False,  f, 

'•■"We  shall  see,"  he  said,  gathering  np  1 
nd  shawls.     "I  shall  not  appear  much 
his  business.     Othere  wil 
no  else  ie  alio 

She  gavo  a  half  shriek  and 

"May  that  boat  of  yours  i 


i  shore.     Good-t 


MUSICAL  CATECHISM. 


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February  17,  1866.] 


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THE  REV.  DR.  NOTT. 

EE  Rev.  Dr.  Eliphalet  Xott,  whose 

i  occurred  oil  the  morning  of  .'anuaiy 
n?.  tii,-<  v.-'ti-r.m  .iinnjv.f  AmauMii  divine;-. 
iul  nearly  r.-.i,  I,,..,]  [],,..  (Mid  of  his  uine- 
ird    vear  when  he    died.      His  life  was 

than   coeval  v.  ii.li  Hint  of  the  repul.lir. 

in  the  nii.!~c  of  the  exciting  cvcnl- 
d  heralded  our  first  Revolution,  he  lived 


time  he  might  1 


i  done.  His  mother,  a 
re,  exercised  a  great  in- 
fluence over  his  first  intellectual  training,  and 
her  discipline  created  in  him  an  ardent  de- 
sire to  pursue  his  studies  to  the  utmost  prac- 
ticable extent.  While  still  a  boy  his  broth- 
er, the  Rev.  Samuel  Nott,  of  Franklin,  Con- 
necticut, adopted  him  as  a  member  of  Ids  own 
family,  and  taught  him  the  elements  of  Greek 
and  Latin.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  took 
charge  of  a  school  in  riaiuliuld,  where  ho 
received  much  aid  and  encouragement  from 
one  of  the  most  learned  divines  of  that  day, 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Joel  Benedict.  In  his  tvren-; 
tieth  year  he  entered  Brown  University,  and, 


Returning  to  Plainfield  he 
study  for  the  ministry  under  Dr.  Benedict, 
teaching  school  at  the  same  time.      In  his 

rn>m  the  hirst  IV-lnk-riaii  Church  of  Alba- 
ns', where  his  ministry  was  very  popular,  and 
inevery  way  a  memorable  success  His  cele- 
brated sermon,  in  1804,  on  the  death  of  Ham- 
.1     ■         .■  !■->  v.  a-  a  per.-onal  friend  of  i.h,-  voim-: 

ilergyman,  has  long  ranked  among  the  best 

:■    •    ■      .■■(  |. iilj.il  eloi|neiiccinthiscountry. 

delivered,  and  while  Xurr  was  only  ihine 
II..-  i*iv-.dency  of  Union  College,  an  instih,- 

jii;iirU:iiu  itself.  Dr.  Jonathan  IOuw  \i;n.s 
had  been  the  second  President;  Dr.  Norr 
«ai  the  lourth.  Up  to  this  time  the  whole 
in. ml. i  i  ol  graduates  for  nine  years  had  been 
only  03.  The  College  had  no  ihrary  or  phi- 
!■  ■  j.hi.  .1  apparatus,  and  was  unbaiias^d 
with  debt.    "  Some  forty  students,"  Dr.  Nott 


cabinet-maker's 

simp,  with  a  single  professor,  was  the  whole 
of  I'nion  College."  lie  bent  himself  to  the 
Work   of  removing  all   thee  disiihiliMes  and 


in- trillion.  J!\  (his  aet, 
Hamilton 
Colle-es  Union  College  was  to 
Otll),   to  lie  appropriated  to  the 


(ho  f'olli"ri'  progre-sed  rap- 

the  College   will 
'  ■  liars.     Dr. 


ward,   "  scattered  over 
yehcncclady,  meeting 


LIPHAIiET  NOTT,  D. 


i  'Tv    w*_.  v  1v.n 


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Saturday,  February  24,  18GG. 

AMENDING  THE  CONSTITUTION. 

IT  is  now  nearly  eighty  years  sinco  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States  wns  framed. 


turc-uu    I 
pr.h.-.plc 


■venls,  find  lui)  graphic  rclitlh- 
treated  the  story  of  the  war 
H  of  grasp,  compactness  and 


i-  hus  illustrated  in  this  i 


On  Tuosday,  April  4 


i  l>\  A.lmir.d  I'.. nil  it.  Captain  Ui.i.i.,  . 
iii/.ciis  who  Ii  id  been  appvi-cd  of  hi- 
Crowds  thronged  the  streets,  and  ct 

"gfi    I'" Is!    t  belli    tin-    emancipated    ]; 


!  growth  of  the  country.      We  regret  th: 


ithec 


ihc  v  n 

ed  also  on 
the  debt 

Tht  intere 


t  the  fear  of  I 
stive  for  the  bil 
the  apprehension  that  the  burden  of 
■ill  be  found  too  oppressive.  ' 
tes:  "Our  debt  is  not  excessi 
ared  with  our  means  of  paym 
1  paid  is  unreasonable  and  cxtn 
4  A  general  system  of  indirect  to 


abtmdoned  for  a  better,  or  it  will  reduce  the 
masses  to  pauperism  and  dependence,"  etc. 
The  payments  for  local  and  general  taxes  are 
statcdat  $597,000,000,  orwithinSi  12,161,781 
of  the  entire  net  earnings  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States  for  i860,  which  are  quoted  with 
approbation  from  the  Social  Science  Review  at 
$709,161,781,  or  5  per  cent,  on  the  whole 
amount  of  capital.  By  adding  to  the  amount 
of  Government  tax  the  per-centages  stated  as 
necessarily    charged  by  wholesale   and    retail 


161,78] 


ri-is  came  the  rebellion  j.-t-li 
tiitionul,  nnd  .mi  ihoimighly  li; 
nd  been  poisoned  that  tlio  p< 
co  wns  almost  paralyzed.  Bui 
ic  struggle  was  ncrco  und  long 
sertion  written  in  tbojifo-bloc 


mated  in  favor  of 
from  the  Govorn- 


The  New  Hampshire  Democratic 
►n  and  the  Virginia    Legislature  are 

>  any  constitutional  aiuciulment.  But 
isition  merely  proves  both  Ks  justice 


In  amending 

the  Constitution  it  will  be  n 

ways  remembe 

cd  bv  wise  men  that  it  is  t! 

•,  and  should  contain  only  pc 

manent  provisi 

ons.      Temporary   objects   u 

by  Congressional  nets.     Y 

law  of  the  United  States  w 

mpcrfect    until  it  guarante 

every  one  of  tho  people.     \V 

shall  gladly  liai 

and  support  every  practical' 

nan  who  knows  that  peace  an 

progress  are  sur 

only  as  they  are  founded  upo 

he  can  to  pdrsuade  public  oph 

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 

The  last  solemn  rite  in  commemoration  < 

TAXATION  OF  OUR  PUBLIC  DEBT. 

It  wns  well  known  at  the  time,  that  many  of 

our  lending  cnpitalists,  among  them  Mr.  Astor, 

were  lately  examined  l.y  the  United  States  Rev- 

or  not  it  is  expedient  for  the  General  Govcrn- 


secrccy  imposed  on  the  press  is  no  longer 
force,  and  we  are  now  at  liberty  to  notice 
s  very  important  proceeding.  The  draft 
1  accompanying  the  report,  imposes  an  annual 


of  the  debt  which  is 
seven-tenths  of  one 
of  the  gold-bearing  1 
1  reduction 


The 


Seven-Thirties  of  one  per  cent,  annually, 
on  the  Five-Twenties  and  Ten-Forties  each 
iven-tentha  of  one  per  cent,  annually,  thus 
ing  tho  rate  of  interest  on  the  Five-Twenty 
Is  5ft  per  cent,  instead  of  6,  and  on  tho  Ten- 
Forty  bonds  only  4ft  per  cent,  instead  of  5  per 

ter.  Tho  income  derived  from  this  diminished 
rate  of  interest  is  left  subject  to  the  income  tax 
often  per  cent,  imposed  by  the  United  States, 
nnd  is  made  subject  to  such  further  income  or 
other  tax  as  shall  hereafter  "be  equally  im- 
posed nnd  levied  upon  all  incomes,  or  directly 
1  id  personal  property  within  the 
subject  to  taxation."     The  bill 


.tics  will  be  greatly  impaired  if  lh< 
llcss  it  shall  be  found  that  the  ex. 
urcd  by  the  bill  againsuho  scheme! 


1 


has  recited  the  latest  c 
Congress  and  all  the 
tion.     The  orator  was 


;  advantago  I  effect  of  1 


lt.e  allegation   in   the  report  that   "the 

-'  paid  is  unreasonable  ami  extravagant," 

;  reference  of  course  to  the  amount  of  the 

The  remedies  proposed  are : 

1.  Such  a  tax  as  will  secure  a  reduction  in 

the  rate  of  interest,  the  amount  to  bo  applied 

t<>  a  linking  fund  for  the  ultimate  payment  of 

the  principal  of  the  debt. 


Thei 


the  real  and 


I'-.  1--- J  property  in  flie-  Pulled  Slate 


the  Co 
This  will  relieve  much 
United  States  from  the 
ui-e  now  directly  imposed. 

ipecie  payments,  by  mi 


3h  purpose  an 
is  proposed, 
dustry  of  the 


tended  Acts  of  Secess 
which  the  New  T01 
spring,  before  the  c 


numd  a  v. 
and  let  us 

Probably  1 


lives,  hurry  to  Washington,  and  dt 
ce  in  the  organization  of  Congress 
see  who  will  dare  to  oppose  you. 
has  seen.  Probably  it  has  discoi 
ie  loyal  American  people,  who  wcr 
igh  to  conquer  rebel  arms,  were  als 
iugh  not  to  be  fooled  by  rebel  art; 


'yet. 


of  Con- 
necticut and  New  Hampshire,  as  well  as  of  all 
the  other  States,  understand  exactly  what  this 
Democratic  platform  is.  It  asserts  that  South 
Carolina  and  Mississippi,  having  laid  down  their 
arms  and  repealed  their  Acts  of  Secession,  are 
again  in  the  Union  exactly  as  New  York  or  New 
Hampshire  are.     If  this  be  true  military  corn- 


right  t 


Again,  if  the  Democratic  position 
l  Frecdmcn's  Bureau  must  be  abi 
j  laboring  population  of  the  late  r 
ich  at  every  hazard  was  wholly  L 


The  . 


nsequeuoes   may 


;  they  mi 
to;  but  we  have  bee: 
and  we  still  think— although  without  thelights 
which  the  great  body  of  testimony  taken  by  the 
Commissioners  furnishes  — that  the  resources 
of  the  country  are  ample  for  this  purpose  with- 
out resorting  to  this  extraordinary  measure. 
It  has  already  been  mentioned  that  Mr.  Hayes 
is  solely  responsible  for  the  bill  and  report  now 

the  Commissioners  recommended  that  his  re- 
port should  be  laid  before  that  body,  on  the 


but  this  guarded  1: 
either  dissented  fin 
:e  that  they  were  1 
They  merely  did  1 


strength  of  which  Mr.  M'Coi 
specially  recommending  its  c 
5  that  he  disagreed  1 
The  report  states  that  "the 

ccede  to  the  propositi* 

guage  shows  that  they  neithc 

gree  "to  recommend  its 
o^ible  tear  that  the  tmimla 
1  iimem  credit  might  be  H'riu 
ulueed  the  great  caution  t 
cued  in  introducing  this  11 
heranuns  of  Congress  ami  1' 
If  the  alleged  discontent  w 
f  the  bonds  from  State  tax; 
f  being  aggravated  by  the 
ogucs  into  a  feeling  cabal; 


debt  by  the  General  Government  is  ncces; 
ountervail   this  mischievous   tendency 
Would  seem  that  a  much  lower  tax  might 
the  purpose-     The  sinking  fund  < 


of  th 
sion  for  the  ultimate  payment  of  the  principal 
debt.  While  tho  holders  of  the  bonds 
must  contribute  in  tho  shape  of  taxes  to  the 
payment  of  interest  they  alone  arc  called  upon 
by  this  bill  to  pay  the  principal  to  the  exemp- 

any  view  of  the  case,  to  saddle 
icipnl  of  the  debt  upon  the  hold- 

,  the  consideration  for  it  being 
id  secure  payment  of  the  lower 
■     .djusted  by  the  bill.      On  the 


ntrarv,  every  i 
be  taxed  alike 
pli-hiueiit  of  which 
most  sacred  duty  of  an  American 


tins  object,  the 


country  ought 


DEMOCRATIC  SPRING  FASHIONS. 
The  Democratic  Conventions  of  New  Hamp- 

ihire  and  Connecticut  have  laid  down  the  Dcm- 


•  ..t  sou- 
led  to  al 

hclongii 


he  Democratic  plan  be  adopted,  the  men 
re  still  hot  with  hate  of  the  Government 
ie  Union,  who  frankly  confess  it,  and  who 
icted  for  that  very  reason,  must  be  aclmit- 
questioned  to  Congress  to  take  a  supreme 
in  the  control  of  a  Government  whose 
destruction  they  have  long  and  fiercely  attempt- 
ed, and  which  they  now  regard  a- a  conquering 
and  alien  power.  lie  who  dmibts  that  they 
would  strain  every  nerve  to  involve  the  coun- 
try in  foreign  wars,  and  to  ruin  its  credit  by 
insisting  upon  compensatinn  fur  the  losses  of 
the  war  at  the  South,  has  little  knowledge  of 
human  nature  or  of  history. 

These  Democratic  Conventions  solemnly  de- 
claic  that  they  support  the  President.  Let  us 
see  if  they  do.      If.  as  they  claim,  every  late 

privilege  it  did  before  the  rebellion,  certainly 
the  President  has  no  right  to  override  their 
civil  aulhuritv  with  the  national  military  power. 
Vet  ho  dnes  so.  He  retains  General  Tukky 
in  Virginia,  who  supersedes  (he  action  of  the 
State  Legislature  in  certain  cases.  Do  the 
(."Yuiuectioiii  Democracy  approve?  The  Presi- 
dent su-tann  General  Sh.ki.i.s  in  South  Caro- 
lina, ami  Governor  Orr  submits.  Do  the  New 
Hampshire  Democracy  approve?  The  Presi- 
dent sustain,  the  Fieednien's  Bureau.  Do  the 
Cuiinecticiif  Democracy  approve?  The  Presi- 
dent fa vurs  impartial  -uliragc  in  Tennessee.  Do 
the  New  Hampshire  Democracy  agree?  The 
President  approves  a  Constitutional  Amend- 
ment limiting  t'le  l>a -i.-;  of  representation  to 
actual  voters.  INe  New  Hampshire  Democ- 
racy oppose  with  Mic  Tory  instinct  "all  pro- 
pped ore eiuplafi'd  amendments  to  the  Con- 
stitution." The  Prudent  holds  the  privilege 
ot'tho  wi  it  uf /,-,/„  „,v  -y,-/^  ..11-pended  in  several 
States.  The  Nov  Hampshire  Democracy  de- 
clares that   '-it  is  a  right  which  must  be  pre- 


the  Connecticut  and  New  Hampshire  Democ- 

racy support  a  President  who  denies  them  that 

position,  and  who  insists  that  only  men  known 

to  he  "loyal"  shall  he  admitted  to  Congress? 

Our  pleasant  but  somewhat  "played-out" 

friends  the  Democrats,  so-called  because  of 

their  hostility  to  every  distinctive  Democratic 

principle,  are  at  their  old  tricks.     Three  years 

ago  they  resolved  that  they  were  in  favor  of  the 

war,  but  Mere  opposed  to  carrying  it  on.     Now 

they  resolve  that  they  support  the  President 

but  are  opposed  to  what  he  docs.     But,  really, 

as  the  old  judge  said  to  the  young  lawyer  that 

he  court  might  be  supposed  to  know  some 

aw,  so  the  loyal  people  of  this  country,  who 

lave  saved  its  Government  from  armed  rebell- 

on  at  the  South  and  Copperhead  sympathy  at 

the  North,  may  be  supposed  by  this  time  to 

understand  the  huge  political  imposture  called 

the  Democratic  party.     From  the  moment  the 

people    of  the   United  States,   plainly  seeing 

whither  this  party  wns  driving  the  country,  put 

t  out  of  power,  its  oracles  have  regularly  pro- 

claimed with  owlish  solemnity  that  we  are  all 

going  to  tho  "demnition  bow-wows."     Jour- 

nals which  unscrupulously  supported  Hokatio 

Seymour,  who  declared  he  would  give  up  the 

Union  rather  than  Slavery,  and  which  strenu- 

February  24,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


ditioii.     it  tin 

If  tllCT   WOUUI 

out   of  d.mgc 


thi'V   lido  i 
the    sr,lo   in 


;  told  us  for  five  years 


by  different  mean 
more  cheered  by  t 
n  surprised  or  disli 


or  discourage  ciin-. 
able  and  peaceful  1 
upon  equal  rights. 
partial  siirYnige,  t 


will  doubtless  t 

...nmclilv   ii 

-estigate  the  f 

It  will  then 

Congress,  but 

people  in'  (lie  Terruorv,  ill 

,  legal  clcctiu 

thoCon-iil 

the  summer  of 

si;r,  mi  iiU'.n 

by  the  Temtoi 

,,1  o.iiMiiim 

for  a  Constitut 

onal  Conven 

ion,  and  an  e 

ture  elected  Messrs.  Evaxs  find  Chaffee  Sen- 
ators, and  they  went  to  Washington.  Upon 
their  arrival  they  requested  the  President  to 
proclaim  Colorado  a  State.  But  the  President 
very  properly  replied  that  his  whole  authority 
in  the  matter  was  derived  from  the  enabling 

people  of  the  Territory  in  pursuance  of  Hint  act 


loceeding.  therefore,  from  the 
mittees  to  the  election  ( 
!.!-■   regarded  as  a  petiti 


■iiiichi^ing  then 
e  ol  such  aeiioi 


e  supposes,  and  he  is  doubtl-,  ritfu 
inpoiiiion,  thai  in  such  an  event  the  In 
I'  (lie.  whole  country  would  lie  aroused  i 
le    unfortunate  colored    population   and 

.ghts.  It  is  better  therefore,  lie  think 
latter  of  expediency,  to  maintain  the  pi 
,,,■,!,  .  1  h  i   ,,i   ill..-  rulnivd   l.U  c,   to   line  the) 


nable  tlicm  to  acquire  n  habit 
nd  self-iespect,  to  show  the 

are  a  permanent  and  integral 
ition,  to  allow  Time  to  soothe 


JOHN  BRIGHT. 


6,100,000,   there  are 

ars,  at  a  cost  of  $1,25 
lation  of  16,000,000, 


e ■  io-ih.ii  i-.. 


framed  l>v  delegates  elected  in  pun 
enabling  "act;  and  if  the  condition: 

publican— then.it  may,  at  its  pie: 


ven- strongly  linked  thai  the 
if  the  '!  ■  rntory  of  Colorado 
5, 000— men,  women,  and  clii 


uffrage,  although  we  have  the  testi- 
miner  to  the  fact  that  such  men  en- 
enefit  of  the  Homestead  Act,  pre- 


torily  proved  or  disprt 


.llicloic  Congress  a 


enemies  by  withdrawing  the  troops, 
ing  the  Freedmen's  Bureau,  and  b; 
the  privilege  of  the  habeas  corpui 
word,  the  President  were  in  favor  ol 
ocratic  policy  in  the  matter,  he 
scorned  and  repudiated  by  every  h 
honorable  man.  But  it  is  not  so. 
and  says  a  great  deal  more.  Ho  vi 
to  the  freedmen  :  "  The  United  Str 
to  you  all  that  the  ballot  w< 


all  be  based  upon  the  number  c 


c  yon  <lc 

less  to  your  enemy  panoplied  i 

pnhhci 

er.     I  do  not  mean  to  nnii  the 

down  the  weak.    And  if  I  can  n 

It  .1.1 11 1 

wish  directly  and  in  your  way,  J 

shall  vc 

indirectly  and  m  my  way." 

dent       It  makes  the  Freedmen 

owever. 

s  llarea 

in  the  place  of  the  ballot  to  th 

lation  of  the  lato  Slave  States. 

But  it 

to  Congress  those  who  depnv 

the  fre 

hall  have  done  what  we  .' 
lmanof  the  only  ileicn  .■ 


compel  Karl  Ki'ssi.i.l,  to  signali/.'  (lie  < 
his  public  career  by  a  Reform  hill  v,  hi 
widely  extend  the  suffrage  in  England. 

LITBKAEY. 

Mas.  Gaskeli.'s" Wives  aial  II  i.uilifr ;' 
of  paMi'aaliua   lisl'.a-a   it   u  IIS  suspected 


H..-.1,  null   I 

,,.-i  (.v„i;r,; 

'III.    ail   ..I 


l.-aal  ail U    |U..  a  Ml:  liav.'li-tS 

jcl.lly  .las 1  in,  nor  a  carta 


h,  I  avail  .-.ip.Tii. 

tei'.sofg limp 

anil  the  tinipl.' 
.entail  iapiin.il 
ins;  h.iii-linld  i- 

a, aid.     Th' 


and  character  maturely 
ind  conscicntiotl8lymndo 
rit  and  facility  of  a  mas- 
are  so  vividly  drawn 
lk  of  permanent  crea- 
ks Browning;  but  the 
the  delicacy  and  Bus- 


ily but  selfish  feelings 
Unfitness  of  cliaractel 
nor  of  the  alias  Brown 


authorized  bv  Congress,  anil  : 
ally  expresses  the  wishes  of  eer 
s  of  the  Territory.  This  fact  b 
ind,  we  may  all  trust  Congress 


new  the  White  Ho 


hat  House  as  Pro.-idont  a 
i  ol  colored  uiiai.  lna.de. I  I 
pleading  for  absolute  eq 


1-  will  the   President   lane 
Kail  Sea  of  war  and  boi 

are  ol  liberty  and  peace  ? 


ihal- 

President 

right  to  do 

„.,  intelli; 

his  word-, 

his  friends 

dill'er.  an. 

i.l.iitiii.'.l 

no  desire 

after 

and  aiaal 

ights : 

heart." 

liner  with  the 
d  details,  has  any 
f  his  purpose;  and 
applaud  and  adopt 
lifter  with  some  of 
rholly  at  liberty  to 
nd  of  his  contrary 
onsi.lere.l  hmisell 
ion  party,  mid  had 
ng  found  outside." 


i.slit.1,  although  its  in. 
m.     The  death  of  the 


DOMESTIC   INTELLKir.  ,Ci:. 


Wfts'pasaed,130to33.    T 

"n..'_\ii,'.lNil"'..'"'i'iV'i'li. 


.,    ,,;    ^ILII '  j',.t     ,     s.|.     i. a  a t  think  .■illua- taut 

t|„    raaa'nta, it     ..   lo.d    1  ■  ,01-  -  ■  r . .  t .  -  - 1   t  l.eii    |«  ;-lJ'l 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Febbpary'24,  1868. 


February  24, 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


in  the  vein?,  the  putting  forth  of  leave?  and  ten- 
tier  blossoms  hued  like  the  rainbow,  the  eager 
joy  of  beginning  the  earliest  rudiments  of  future 
frmt— the  sjinng-time  of  youth!  Never  physi- 
cian entered  upon  the  case  of  his  first  patient, 
never  lawyer  undertook  the  business  of  his  first 


iMi:>    hi-  \ 

..;:  ^ h,tv 


That  once  was  strewn  \ 
That  once  was  wet   wit! 


PH;    lnwerin-  (inn. Is  the  heavens  i 

Whence  the  battle  smoko  has  long  : 

And  where  voiceless  lay  the  fallen  dead 

A  nameless  grave  is  seen. instead. 

Through  the  leafless  woods  the  low  winds  creep 

As  a  sobbing  moan  from  the  loved  who  weep 

And  with  aching  hearts  their  vigils  keep 

For  one  in  a  nameless  grave  asleep. 

The  withered  grass  'neiuh  the  falling  rain 

O'er  the  grave  bends  low  like  ripened  grain ; 

"      weary  hearts,  though  bowed  with  pain, 


His 


Encli  nameless  gra 


ild  and  meadow  green 
iny  a  lowly  hillock  seen ; 

n  the  tcnip-'-t   keen 

'Neath  tliis  low  mound  lies  one  who 
A  life  to  God— the  right  to  save; 
Too  noble  thou  to  live  a  slave— 
Thou  fillest  now  a  nameless  grave. 
Slumber,  loved  one!  sweetly  sleep: 
Thou  art  at  rest— the  living  w^cp ; 
Green  thy  memory  here  we'll  keep, 
For  we  on  earth  thy  lifc-frm!-  r,:T, 


Re-t  thee,  de.u 
Hath  thy  life-i 


Noti 


INSIDE. 

A  CHRONICLE  OF  SECESSION. 
By  Georgia  F.  Harrington. 

IN  TWENTY-FOUR  CHAPTERS. 

CHAPTER  VII. 
Let  us  linger  a  few  moments  longer  before 

plunge  again  into  the  stormy  epoch  of  Se- 
ssion with  which  these  pages  began.     Wo  will 

rci'but  a  moment.      Heaven  knows  Scc?-mou 


i-try  had  been  the  purpose  of  his  life.  A  hun- 
dred times  bad  he  planned  exactly  what  he  would 
do,  and  what  be  would  most  carefully  not  do, 
after  having  charge,  while  yet  in  college.  As 
to  his  three  years  in  the  Theological  Seminary-, 
not  a  day  but  lie  had  determined  upon  some 
new  evil  to  be  avoided  in  his  future  ministry, 
upon  some  new  virtue  to  be  practiced.  During 
all  the  long  years  going  before,  he  had  never 
known  one  of  his  own  proposed  profession,  thrown 
with  him  in  biography  or  in  person,  but  he  had 
1y  the  help  of  God,  when  I 

nnd  that  as  I  see  it  in  this  individual.  God 
helping  me,  even  this  heroism,  this  habit,  this 
ss  which  adorns  this  man  shall  be  equaled, 
please  God,  surpassed,  when  Am 

Soraerville,  when  he  awoke  in  Rutledge  Bowlefs 
office, there  "    *" 
!■  dm;;  bait' 

long  training,  placing, 
dreaming,  was,  at  last  fairlv  entered  upon.  All, 
how  fervently  did  he  pray  for  aid  as  he  knelt  be- 
side his  neat  bed!  What  expressions  of  his  own 
inability  to  do  aught  unaided  on  his  lips,  and  what 
perfect  confidence  of  being  able  to  accomplish 
every .  thing  throbbing  [he  same  instant  in  his 
dignified  tii.m  he  in 
conducting  family  worship  that  morning  in  Mrs. 
Bowles's  parlor  beneath  the  steady  stare  of  the 
old  Major  from  his  gilded  frame,  Mrs.  Howies  in 
her  low  sewing- 
ath 

solemnly  near 
persisted,  as  he  began,  in  reading  the  chapter 
expressly  and  definitely  to  Mrs.  Bowles  and  her 
continued  nr- 
:  the  first 
:  deeply  and  devotion- 

dingly.  And  so  of  his  prayer:  nothing  could 
■  -"  -atural  because  nothing  could  be 
Were  it  only  for  the  ctteet  of 
ones  eoii-crp.eiit  bearing  toward  his  fcllo 
i^  ail  .idiiilLiiile  thing  to  possess  adecnaud 
nal  leleie.icc  to.  and  hcart-idt  belief  in,  U 
premcly  above  the  whole  of  us. 

"The  head  of  the  table,  did  you  say?" 
* -thur  a  few  minutes  after,  us 'the v 
themselves  al  the  breakfast, table." 
If  yon  please,  Mr.  Arthur,  the  foot  c 
3,"  said  Mrs.  Bowles,  with  a  slight  South 
Caioliuianisin  of  stress  upon  the  word. 

for  the  bashful 
fresh   from  the  barbarism  of 
years' eating   with  .-loncbcd  and  slipshod 
panions  in  the  seminary  refectory.     His  c 
burned,  and  Alice's  eyes  danced  with  fun.     Bite 
all  the  Latin,  Greek,  and  Hebrew  in  the  world 
gentleman  in  a  man 


College  can  not  conic  to  understand,  any  of 
them,  what  the  youth  of  South  Carolina  "are, 
and  what  they  will  not  submit  to.  Strange  !  It 
is  a  great  inierrnpnouto  the  studies,  I  fear.  I 
know  very  little  ot  the  institutions  out  of  the 
State;  but  I  fear  it  is  something  peculiar  to  Co- 
lumbia," snid  Mrs.  ISowles,  though  h«-r  IV  ir 
sounded  far  more  like  pride. 

Yes,  in  the  history,  eventful  onough,  of  the 
College  of  South  Carolina,  at  Columbia,  you 
have,  m  epitome,  the  character  and  history  of 
the  State  itself.  Self-will,  contempt  for  rightful 
authority,  reckless  disregard  of  every  thing  ex- 


.  high 


of  the  h 

,-outh,  //,.//  yield  I 
Faculty?    No,  Sii 


Rath- 


foundation!     Rather  than  that,  let  thcii 

education,    and    consequent    success    in    life 
youth  when  grown 


i  high. 


■asnrably  I) 


gallant,  high-toned,  and 

to  the  supciioi  au- 
thority of  the  General  Government?  they  yield 
a  hair's- breadth  from  their  own  heated  view 
of  their  own  rights  and  wrongs— imprescriptible 
rights,  infinite  wrongs?  By  all  that  elevates  the 
negro, 

•,  let  tho  General 
wrecked  till  not  a  spar  floats  to 


thereof  on  h 
I'oor  Mrs,  Howies  I     From  i 
practical  Secession 

pint  of  the  Columbia  Curriculum,  nnd  v 
the   le--on    learned.      The    vdlow-lVvcr 
say,  a  standing  affair  in  Cuba;  nnd  i 
scarce  a  man  beside  the  Pcdccs,  the  Congarcc, 
the  Edisto,  and  the  Cooper  and  Ashley  but  in- 
haled Secession  as  his  vital  atmosphere.     It  w 
the  Gospel.     Hoavon  dcfei 
us,  even  in  tho  conventions  (  " 
It  was:    Mr.  Chairman,   Mr.  Modcr 
painful  to  us,  Sir,  it  is  very  painful,  I 

yield.     No  one  ea 


s  than  ourselves,  but, 
point,  there  is,  Sir,  bu 

:cula-  seadoriunnue,   ai, 


f  brethren  will  pr, 
South   Carolina  t 


Sturdy,  wrong- hcau;  I  :  :  ■  I .  .'-  ,,,■  !,.,,;;  ;i[  i; 
on  the  map  there,  altogether  unlike  North  Car- 
o  ina  even  on  the  one  side,  nnd  Georgia  on  the 
"ilicv;  tough,  thro, jded  fragment  of  medie- 
an  angle  even  in  the  rolling  of  the  "reat  waters 


h'ug  and  too  obstinately  dammed  back  from  their 
natural  and  inevitable  course.  Every  soul  of  us, 
however,  admires  the  South  Carolinian  at  hist. 
Duly  let  him  he  master,  and  a  truer  gentleman 
never  breathed.  The  Ilanlkoppig  lYit  ;„  hira 
is  hidden  under  the  liayard,  the  Crcnr  de  Leon, 
lie  is  only  il  hundred  yeai 
that  is  all.      Then-  is  uothi, 

Quixote  except  h 
late.     Even  then 


nothing  to  laugh  al  in  Don 

is  will,  pain  that  we 
-  language  defiant  i 
sorrowful  of  all,  pot 


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[February  24, 


■■'iMii'li'.-iir.! 
eh.,ir  1.  I,,,-,. 


:tazv, 


regarded   ; 
br.-rher's  t 


,  profanity,   infidelity,  ami   a  sc 
(,.i  !,c  immediately  combated. 


yd,  <m  second  ih"Ughi, 
-■IcaM.re  to  the  ardent  ,,„> 
„   m.l.l,.   -!/■   fli--    Hn.nl,   - 


Us,  Mru.lv  Mr.  1-Yrgns.m,  smiling 
voted  Mr.  Ellis.  -Mrs.  Sorcl,  too, 
■  cluck  did  she  alight  every  Sub- 
it.  eight  o'clock  with  ltubhy,  her 


.  head  .ind  sorrowful  eye;;  of  his  wife.  To 
.rth.ir  she  was  but  ....  estimable,  silent,  ve- 
liulv,    sorrowful   by   n-a^ou    of    ill  health. 


i-c!  Mr. 
.inhisv.s, 
1.0]>efUl  to 


,  linlr  nli'icr  in  llie  vai.l.  At  la*l  Alls. 
would  run  in  upon  him  of  mornings 
(he  midst  of  hi-  studies,  will,  an  npi>ln- 
iuicrriipliiig  him.  onlv  sb<-  ihonghi  he 
|;e  to  h.-iir  this,  thin,  and  tin-  oiher  m- 


i  with  the  other  denominations 
;cd  bv  Mr.  Arthur's  advent  into 
ul,  had  to  do  with  all  this  on 
them,  no  man  shall  a-k  and  no 


;  will  be  perfectly  pure. 


uglily  plain 


llang'htv  i- 


reposterous  in  this  free  land.  Modest  confid- 
ence, self-re  nance,  independence,  queenliness, 
mrlessucss—  well,  the  language  lacks  the  exact 
rord,  and  wc  must  do  without.  The  reverend 
uest  had  taken  up  an  idea  that  this  black-hair- 
d,  quiek-eved,  opemhrowed  school-girl  must 
fscmble  Joan  of  Arc,  Bay,  before  she  had  come 
ut  into  the  world,  yet  liot Unaware  of  herself 
ven  then.  There  wa«  somewhat  of  the  angular- 
ly of  the  school-girl— likes  and  dislikes  sharply 
xpie?scd,  undisguised  amusement  at  every  thing 
dd  in  any  person  whatever,  and  a  certain  some- 

:cl  quite  sure  that  she — if  she  did  not  dislike 


le  he  talked,  liko 

The  idea  new.  .lcimitclv  entered  ihe 

taken  apart   and  accurately  weighed  pi. 

all  those  davs  was  to  him  decidedly  m 

en  thrown  with 

all  the  win  Id  bi-idcs.     ^  on  may  say  it 

es?"  said  her  mother 

with  pleased  eyes. 

never  flatter,  Mrs.  1 

owlcs;  but  there 

South  Carolinian 

ibly,"  he  continucc 

pardon  me,  I  interr 

pted  a  remark  yo 

oT  a"  all,"  said  the 

mother,  abnndonin 

d  theme  for  the  new 

"Only  what  yo 

rginians,"  said  Mr 

s,  in  tone  cheerfully 

oncedmg  the  secon 

n  the  world  to  Virgir 

one  from  New  Engla 

ertmnlv.  rnv  ,1,/ar,     sin!  !,<■,'  iiintlier.  wit 

;  employed  as  your  teacher.  She  is  a  very  re- 
sectable person,  1  know.  And  you  forget  ihat. 
'ie  is  not  to  blame  for  her  ].laco  of  birth.  They 
lay  say  what  they  please  of  the  Yankee-,"  con- 
nued  the  motlier,  turning  with  charming  can- 
or  to  her  guest,  "  but  for  my  part  I  think  they 
re  extremely  useful  people  in  their  way.     I  can 


for  Rutledgo   Bowles.      I   am  afraid  Rutledgo 

able  as  it  should  be,  but  I  am  sure  the  young 
man  really  wished  to  he  of  service.  He  remain- 
ed but  a  short  time.  Rutlcdge  Bowles  disliked 
him ;  treated  him,  in  fact,  so— so  scornfully  that 

wc  were  compelled  to  dismiss  him." 


r/^iJiu-j 


fnilne-  end  flow  of  words 
afterward  to  learn.     It  w 

grew  old  ihai  Edmund  lUi 


preaching  ii,  ihat  it  was  nolh 
the  reverse  rather.  Again, 
the  ]inlpit  with  some  prepn: 


I  .be  ,-\  i.l./ni   niicr-'-t  o,   cin/r. ■:;.!■ 

it  was  far  belter  limn  he  had  ever 
e.     One  Sabbath  when  he  would  count 

,-  on  bavin.;  quite  a  emwdud  e.mgrc- 
wonld  be  chilled  m  <hc  soul  to  find 
dl  one.  Another  Sabbath,  eomi.ing 
pon  but  a  sp:n>e  attendance,  he  would 
iged  by  a  house  full.  Now  he  would 
count    assuredly  upon   cenain  persons 

lstead;  and  m  ret  civ.-,  unexpectedly. 
to  meml.ei.bip  ,,f  v  h..m  he  had  never 
:h  a  thing.  To-day  would  he  be  cn- 
by  the  unaccountable  presence  of  cer- 
iduals  at  church;  and  on  the  next  oc- 
iinyed  by  the    unaccountable  absence 

>ek  he  would  attend  some  fuuera.1,  and 
the  apathv  to  the  important  -pininul 
:!llt-   brought    to  mind  mi  tie-  pan   of 


:,;':.;  ir. 


■   would,  ile-e  MUn.'.n        iriuh,.     The   li.xl 
-,uld  be   illuminate.  h   some  uncxpec, 

ng-expected  wedding,  with  all  the  inci( 

And  there,  also,  was  the  pastoral  visitai 
e  conversing  with  persons  from  wdiom  al 
:v  hir.-rr  of  Areh-mcdr.  c.iibl  not  have  d 
it  rnorcH.anV.sainlNodmm-il-  inter 
owevcr.  there  was  placid,  sni-ihle  M.s.  S 
■actical  Guy  Brooks  ;  delightful  Mr.  Ellis, 
hom  he  could  converse.  Crusty  as  Mr.  Fer- 
ison  was,  too,  the  young  minister  soon  Ic 
,  Uecp  pl'-niv  of  -ea-room  in  conveismi. 
.ivnlnnwlfand  tla-  Sctchmaiis  hidden 
arned  even  to  keep  al.-of,  with  •,  marine 
inct  of  a  storm,  from  ihc  Scotchman  alt. 

•&.     And  so  passed  the  days  along. 
Perhaps  there  was  not  one  tfcing  in  his  charge 


h.'  lui 

i,,.  . 

,:  . 

■il-i 

of  the 

1,',, 

■    In 

•>>■ 

■V    11 

"■'  |',', 

.'V 

;,,:; 

=-lii 

.„„!   |.l 

It 

t.- 

"Z 

ui.'.il  1 

:.!!>- 

,i. 

ted 

table  a  foot  across  for  pulpit,  was  accompanied, 
with  a  purer  pleasure  than  the  worship  iu  manv 
a  stately  edifice  all  granite  and  walnut,  fresco', 
>lvet.     Too  obtaining  of  the  church  bel], 

he  instant  of  the  conception  of  the  idea  in 
ad  of  Mrs.  Bowles,  until  its  first  peal  rang 


;,  wa-  one  lone/  and  pk-a-uraU 
nd  the  painting,  pewing,  fin 
;ll  throughout,  in  which  the  1 


gi.iii.l    eliorl 
Cmigr.-guli.. 


'-  of  as.n.l 
i    of    suddci 


Oh.  bles.cd  period  of  life,  when  a  man  h  fni 
at  his  life's  work,  with  Youth  and  Health  a 
Hope  his  close  companions!  Blessed  per 
when,  like  a  swimmer  fresh  to  his  task,  then 
a  joy  in  every  fibre  at  the  very  encountering  i 
mounting  and  leaving  behind  the  opposing  I 
lows  as  they  come!  Time  of  exultation,  wl 
every  defect  dis 
the  hope  of  h( 


ncefoi 


ally  i 


•h  leads  one  that  much  higher  above 
vas  before  !     But,  O  youth  thrice  ble-. 

ihc  Telcmachu-  accompanied  by  Men- 


.-.d~  walks  m 
av,  Uueelim:  ) 


ship   Closer    and    sweeter    Mum 

knows    beside    with    that    friend   and 
There   is   too   entire   an    identity    he- 


arth and  him  who  is  doing  t 


"nucTtni 


ely°it  filled 


When'lK 
bought  r 


dent  how  fully  en- 

ivith  his  work,  and 
■d  and  sati-fi.-'d  his  heart  and 


nly  at  the  sugges- 


w  hole  herds  thereof  by  natural  increase  in  a  fev 
years.  "Why  could  he  not  have  done  the  same } 
There  was*Mr.  Ncely,  t  he  schoolmaster— with  hr 
first  earnings  from  his  school  he  had  bought  ! 


nyday.  "  And  whv,"  Mrs.  W 
^ked,'"  could  not  Mr.  Arthur 
a  thing?"     Yes,  it  is  with  pai 


K?     C 

rta 

l,lr.        But  M 

ehth 

ugl 

tless- 

.:,;„! 

We  wouk 

,l.i, ed:  Lett 

r  tell  the 

tough. 

T 

nth  is,  "The 

,',(!.< 

nl'liLil 

their  generation 

tha 

a  the 

i-v 

ain— he  grew 

stea 

ily 

ntho 

.-,  .1  hi* 

de 

rl.lh  >vi- 

knowlcdged  his  deplorf 
dom.     Yet  "men  will 

doest  well  to  thyself;" 

.crimps  they  w.ndd  hav-: 

..■riv  all    the  while;    but 

let  us  recount  nothing 
though  the  heavens  fall 

3ut  the  truth  about  him 

in<!   |c,v,      1-  inn,  ila-  lira 
e   had   but  one   definite 

trouble;    and   that   tro 

black  eyes,  which  saw 

■wrv  thing  going  on  in 

Somcrville  and   a  grei 

..1  such  a  tongue  !     1'cr- 

pctuallywasMrs/VVarnc 

■sccimisonicih.ic.:  drea.l- 

ful  here,  and  strongly  su 

prcun-souK-tluug  w  "!■--' 

there,  and  painfully  but 

uocU   assured  ol  dl,- 

ad  ft 


re,  and  pouring  all  herself  abroad 
i  matters  every  where.  Any  chemi^ 
enumerated  the  ingredients  coinp"-?- 
mo-pb.-re  of  Soiuervillc,  and,  in  nien- 
por,  and  carbonic 
Mrs.  Warner  as  a 


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nlv  that  -he  washed  her  "dirty  linen."  Some 
f  it  showing,  in  her  hands,  so  very  dirty,  too. 
As  the  years  rolled  by  the  cniial  gates  had 
een  too  often  opened  to  close  now  nt  all.  But 
er  children  did  not  particularly  mind,  her  serv- 
nts  had  crown  used  lo  it,  her  husband  was  too 
Id  a  sailor  upon  the  tossing  deck  and  amidst 

0111  c  to  regard  it  all  as  the  ordinance  of  nature. 
Svery  day  he  grew  fatter  and  balder  and  more 
looped  about  the  head,  more  slovenly  about  the 
ierson,  quite  a  weather-beaten  mariner,  but 
.■ondcrfully  forbearing  and  mild.  But  then  her 
able,  and  her  exquisitely  neat  and  clock-work 

perfectly  deaf,  or  a  philosopher— Socrates  say— 
to  could  live  even  under  Mrs. Warner's  roof. 

And  all  these  months  Mr.  Arthur  continues 
nth  Mrs.  Bowles.  The  idea  never  occurred  to 
ler  in  that  form  ;  but  her  guest  was  to  her  all 
hat  Kulledgo  Bowles  would  have  been  had  he 
nstead   tenanted  the  little  office  in  the   front 


Alice  in  her  studies,"  said  Mr.. 
Sorel  one  day;  "and  they  liav 
deal  of  history  together,  too. 


Mr.  Arthur  takes 

mproved  beyond  her 
do.  I  hope  to  return 
utlcdge  Bowles  is  sct- 


t  Alice  i-  tiuallv  married  into  one  of  the 
ios  there  I  will  be  satisfied." 
tl  ].];iri,]  Mr-.  S.nvl  onh  smiled  in  her  q 
and  said  nothing  mjk.ii  tin-  suhj.-ct  vjiate 


THE  "IKREPRESSIBLE  CONFLICT; 

One  of  the  wisest  statesmen  of  the  age  has  coine. 
an  immortal  sentence  and  applied  it  so  pertinent!; 


s  mistakes  only.     If  H 


u  delicate  breakfast  i 
ling-room  not  fit  to  he 

ught.the" 


Arabella  heaves  a  givat  rij.li,  shuts  her  month  close, 
and  wishes  that  she  might  he  the  cook  and  chnmber- 


liiirin-  U,  ache,  n.-rves  all  ii| 
be-in,  t.ifo:ii  that  Jones  dot 


l.righi    wi.' 


rl::',  .   j    iH.r-.^vli'-n  iho  children  are  ill;  in  fact,  is 
just  as  much  a  martyr  as  any  Brahmin  widow, 
only  dilference  consisting  in  the  fact  that  she 
longer  lime  in  dying.      I  am  speaking  of  the  i 


>  have  Bridget  ma' 
soup  under  my  i 
used  from  dying,  j 


ssorship  in  a  College.      I  might  a 

.  snatch  the  brightest  part  of  a  rain1 
eck-tie  for  my  beloved  Job.   There 


etry  confined  to  the  library.  The  relation  between 
mistress  and  servant  is  as  devoid  of  sentiment  as  a 
geometrical  figure.  We  must  grapple  with  facts— 
not  fancy.  Suppose  I  succeed  in  finding  the  gen- 
teel person  who  will  come  for  the  sake  of  ft  home- 
are  they  not  of  all  others  those  whom  1  dread  most  ? 
Wouldn't  I  not  only  have  my  own  trials  to  bear  but 
theirs  also?  Are  not  my  bonds  full  to  plethora, 
and  my  heart  to  bursting,  training  up  young  Ike 
Tor  the  twenty-ninth  President,  and  devising  plans 


I  f.  -1  ■ 


M..lhc, 


rork?      And  are  they  u 


ugav-.   atrd  the  pill,  neverthele; 


>f  Juggernai 


Tin-   invpie-vil.h*  ennuiet  wages.        What   i- 

done?      While  the  American  wives  and  m 
are  amplv  supplied  with  brains  they  are  per 
for  the  want  of  so  much  bone  and  muscle.     These 
muchneededcommoditiesare  found  in  foreign  coi 
tries — why  not  here?      It  can  not  be  owing  to  ■ 
peculiar  institutions.     The  fact  that  "  help  is  wast 
upon  our  shores  by  the  tide  of  emigration"  docs  ] 
change  the  nature  of  that  help?     If  they  are 
dustrious  and  orderly  in  their  own  country  why 
should  they  not  continue  to  be  so  after  their  arrival 
here  ?    And  here  is  the  pivot  of  the  whole  difficulty. 
American  house-keepers  must  have  unity  of  action. 
WouldGeneral  Grant  have  succeeded  in  quelling 
the  rebellion,  no  matter  how  brave  and  capable  he 
ha*  proved  himself  to  be,  had  he  gone  forth  unat- 
tended and  alone  ?    After  a  given  period  it  must  be 
announced  that  no  help  will  be  employed  without 
bringing  satisfactory  reference  from  the  last  plaoe. 
This  must  be  strictly  adhered  to.     It  may  even  be 
necessary  to  form  ourselves  into  a  Union  league, 


land,  so  remote  and  wide-spread  is  tin-  moral 
',  Servants  must  ho  Riven  to  understand 
intakes  will  be  pardoned,  but  inditlerciic'  and 


utv,  the  consequence-  will  i 
..  them,  and  every  mistier  i 
idure  every  trial  until  tin-  -1 


T£ 


■.! i til-      ■-  i-i-  ihe  .     i      -     !"■■ 

No  groat  good  is  achieved  without  a  struggle. 
erv  earthlv  birth  is  ushered  in  with   pain.      I 


But  suppose  I  si 
ranged  accordingly 
dentally  become  th 


in. an  time  we  will  have  a  piiclier  ol  water  mm  n 
baker's  crust  laid  on  our  table.  And  should  we  die, 
better  die  a  natural  death  than  of  an  overdose  of 
Erin  or  the  Black  plague.  Let  ns  be  resolved  that 
wo  will  not  die  in  this  struggle— that  we  will  light 
the  good  light  till  the  rebellion  is  ended.  Wi 
the  national  resources  of  men  and  money,  a 
can  hold  out  until  the  enemy's  strength  is  entirely 

telligence  nine.?-  are  overflowing,  and  tiie  oifi. 
the  IWdm-m's  Bureau  groan  with  the  hlael 


Having  uni  died  the  above  literary  balloon,  befoi 


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UKL'TF.NAM  - 


GENERAL  PRIM. 

Don  Juan  Prim,  the  leader  in  the  late  attempt 
3  overturn  tlic  Spanish  Government,  bore  the  rank 
f  Lieutenant-Oeuera]  in  the  national  army  of  Spain. 
IBrusch,  C'lHint  do  Urns,  M.u«(ims 


;  Los  ('astillejns,  ,- 


Don  Carlos 
tinginl839. 


.ndee  of  Spain  ui"  t In-  lir-i 

tie  was  born  at  Kous.  in  Catalonia,  Decem- 

1814.     He  fought  against  the  adherents  of 

six  years  of  civil  war,  termina- 


i  seriously  implicated  i 


'  <nviiii.-:.  I.v  firing  a'  his 
Rdk-r  i.  N  \ii\-\i  /.  him- 
u-Ur  .it"  St.i|...   );,  i;Mn„  , 


camp,  Rasetti,  who  was  in  the  back  seat  and  was 
shot  dead  on  rhc  spot.  Pimm  was  tried  with  others, 
convicted  of  participation  in  the  murder,  and  con- 
demned to  death;  Imt  N'.utVAr.z,  either  out  of  a 
very  extreme  magnanimity  or  possibly  from  some 


the  Queen  to  cancel  the  scute! 


.Vlli.'.s  iliiriu:' 

111    Ml.'   ]'.P-I   In- 


Ill  18.VI  Oeneral  Punr  v, 

tare  <' iui»i,,TKT  to  ihe  e 

Hie  <  Yimean  war.  On  his 
pa.^od  through  Paris,  whei 
Mexican  lady,  Senora  ECHEVAHMA,'  who  brought 
him  a  dowry  of  SG00,000,  with  expectations  ofiio 
less  a  fortune  from  her  mother,  and  8I,Oiii),ono  from 
each  of  her  two  uncles.  Ho  was  promoted  to  his 
present  rank  in  the  army  in  185G,  and  in  1858  was 
the  joint  exp.vdiliou 


:<  of  F.nghmd,  France,  and  Spain 


and  .,|   i|„. 


PlLIM  prooooded 

L-li>h  contingent 
leaving 


Prim 

"ur'nt.  h.dng  charged 

nipotentiary.    How 


installment  of  an 
ors  of  wclUkn.uMi 


of  Mexico  and 

''■  i;-trian  dynasty  there,  aro 
-   ■nt..'ni|"H'ai-y  history. 

Under  the  Ministry  presided  over  by  Senor  Mon 
Prim  was  again  implicated  in  some  underhand  man 


do.  He  was  recalled  by  X.\Kv.vry, 
Administration,  and  is  nevertheless 
ined  O'Donhbll  in  the  efforts  made 
>  oust  his  rival,  by  fair  means  or  foul. 


It  was  on  January  2  that  General  Pnrar  loft  Mad- 
rid on  his  "  >uoot,,,g  oxci,r-ion."nnd  nlaced  himself 

AranjiKV,.     His 
with  any  great 

SAILING  ON  THE  ICE. 

An  ongraviiK'Vhicb  wo  publish  on  this  | 


than  tha 
These 


not  cmv,,!,  .-).  mi],..  |„.r  minnle,  ,,r  .•!<■;,[,■•>■ 
of  the  most  rapid  locomotive, 
ico-yaeiitson  Hie  IIiuNmi  aro  all  made  on 
general  plan.  A  light  fraino,  1;i  f'eef  long, 
floored,  i.n  ^■ciivrdloa.  trnn:;ver.s-  plank,  Ci 
iglli,  by  hvo  !>.,!(■.  ami  nibl.n-  :  [nam-.;.    Tn 


d  runner,  win,  h  form*  the  apex  of  an  erniilator.il 
nglc.  By  this  the  helmsman  gni.hs  his  hoaL  in 
f-'ct  safety  while  Hying  literally  with  the  speed 


THE  HARBOR  OP  CALLAO. 

Peru,  having  entered  into  an  alliance  with  Chili, 
has  declared  war  against  Spain.      Tho  Peruvian  and 
rliil,'i ''-'«  liaveeilecled a  junction,  and  nil  Span- 
province  of  Lima  have  been 

country.     As  our  readers  aro 

in  emiseipieneoor  Ihe  seizure  of 

luable  deposits 

niahn-ial  guar- 


forhiddeu  In  leave  I. 


of  guano,  by  tho  Spanish 


lUbjectfl  lately  resident  i 


behalf  of  somo  Spanish 

Peru.     These  circurast 

interest  to  our  engraving  of  tho  Harbor  of  Callao, 

tho  chief  Peruvian  sea-port.     The  town  of  Callao, 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[February  24,  1866. 


ituVesquc.  Onnulwr  day  the  Inucrsol  I. una ,  t ho 
etropolis  of  Peru.  m»>  be  ft'"  ■',l  tlu;  l,il-1'  "f  ""' 
llssnarkling  in  the  sun.  .'i-  >h..wn  inourongrav- 
.,       'J  l,,  ,„„  tort^oi,  Hi--  right  were  built  by  the 

laniards  before  the  era  of  IVnivian  independence. 


■ih-  iViiiNiiin., 


rlefClihe.. 


WRECK    OF    THE    STEADIER 
"LONDON." 


■.fully  cli- 


nch   day,   which 

f,',1  Sydney  l-ni- 
:r,  and  liotli  took 
s.     At  daybreak 

ithcChumielslill 


I  as  illustrating  the 


il.lv    fate   of 


,vho,  apprehending  the 

resigned  his,  pa-rage  at 
id  returned  home!  How  fortunate, 
lady  who,  after  repeated  implications 
;'  agents  nt  Plymouth,  was  finally 
mining  the  doomed  passengers  by 


lip  still  rolling  deeply  1 


i  of  water  fell  heavily  over 
spent  its  destructive  force 
iver  the  engine-room,  com- 


r  this  portion  of  the  ship.     Instant  c 


utes  alter  the  halchway  hnd  been  destroyed  (he  wa- 

of  the  engineers  mid  firemen  employed  in  this  part 

ed  with  the  rush  of  water  the  ship  was  continually 
taking  in.     The  chief  engineer  remained  fit  his  post 

went  on  deck  and  reported  that  his  fires  were  out, 

and  his  engines  rendered  useless.  Captain  Martin, 
with  culm  conviction,  remarked  tbut  he  was  not  sur- 
prised; on  the  contrary,  he  had  expected  such  a  re- 
sult. Finding  his  noble  ship  at  length  little  move 
Captain  Maktin  immedi- 


of  keeping  her  before  tin- wind.      The  dillicult  work 


jiiio,    supplied  with 


Jeck,   and  all    the   deck-pumps,   were 

kepi    going 

hroughout  the-  night,   and  the  passengers   of  all 

longer,  shared  with  the  crew  their  ar 

Note,  it lisla mime:  every  ellort  the  wati 

ipon  the  pumps,  and  the  gale  continuing  at  its 

stantly  breaking  over  the  vessel,  which  at  length 

succumbed  to  the  unequal  conflict.     Prom  this  mo- 

she  refused  to  rise  to  the  action  of  the 

a  quarter  after  4  o'clock  on  Thursday 

mornine;  --die 

was  struck  by  a  stern  sea  which  earn 

d  away  four 

through  the  breach.  Fi/mi  ihi-  lime  ii 1 1  effort-,  \i 
useless;  and  at  day-break  Captain  Makiin.  wl. 
cool  intrepidity  had  never  for  a  moment  forsa 


ow  taken  refuge,  and,  responding 
i  the  universal  appeal,  calmly  announced  the  ces- 
ition  of  all  human  hopes.  It  is  a  remaikable  fact 
int  this  solemn  admission  was  us  solemnly  received, 
resigned  silence  prevailing  throughout  the  i^seni- 
ly,  broken  only  at  brief  intervals  by  the  well-timed 
lid  appiopriate  exhortations  of  the  Key.  Mr.  Dha- 


nioniing,  the  latal  11th,  the  Captain 

mii-t  prepare  for  the  worst.     A  life- 

amped,  though  the  men  were  got  on 

;-boats?     Then  indeed  the  situation 
.     All  the  passengers  and  crew  gath- 

,  panic-stricken  faces,  but  with  no  til- 


ing I"--'  "ii  Hie  ship.  ami   i,->  -leai-  beine;  ,, 


in  a  boat  rather  than  go  down  without  a  struggle. 
Leaving  the  saloon,  therefore,  they  got  out  and  low- 
ered awav  the  port  culler,  into  winch  sixteen  of  tin 


,  I  will  go  down  wit 
«  ish  you  God-speed  and  sal 
the. i  pulled  away,  toeing  about  helpU-sly  on 

re.-ls  of  l he  gigantic  waves.     Scarcely  had  they 


contused  cry  of  helpless  tei 
lent  forever.  Those  in  tb 
rescued  the  next  day  by  t 
pie.    Among  those  lost,  numbering  a 


together  220, 
■us   the   distinguished   actor  Gl'STAVus  YAUGl 
Bbook  and  his  sister.     The  cause  of  the  wrec) 
the  hmdon  was  probably  the  large  amount  of 


The  portrait  which  is  known  to  have  been  painted 
by  C.  W.  Peale,  in  1772,  represents  Washington 
at  forty  years  of  age,  in  the  uniform  of  a  Virginia 
Colonel  of  that  day.     Peale  was  a  remarkable  man. 


\allej     h.rgc    " 


■■r-in-rhiel    at 
•  portrait  is  in 


Ih e  bat. lie  of  I 'i  im  eton.       This  latl 
the  National  Institute  at  Washington. 

Di;  Mere's  portrait  represents  Washington  as 
a  young  man  of  twenty-live.  The  portrait  of  Wash- 
ington which  is  most  familiar  to  every  body  is 
Stuart's,  which  represents  him  at  a  very  late  pe- 
riod. This  is  more  massive  and  grand  than  any 
of  the  others.     The  origin; 


Thee 


A  COMFORTABLE  DOCTRINE. 

night  in  the  course  of  his  explorations  a  lion  seized 


;n  Dr.  Livingstone  was  i 
i  the  course  of  his  explorat 
iok  him,  with  a  view  to  fur 


nill'  t'.ai   I  hey  have  *' 

tyle  as  this."   The  doctor  i 

he  result  of  this  shaking  \ 


dud  pain,  and  had  no  considerable  dread  of 
the  tearing  of  llesh  and  limbs  which  was  to  precede 
his  death.  Thereupon  he  suggests  the  idea  that, 
perhaps,  the  practice,  of  shaking  their  prey  which  is 
observed  in  all  feline  animal-,  as  well  as  in  .logs  and 


If  we  look  into  tide- ui  death  by  \i.ih-n.-.  w 
sec  in  very  man}-  cases  smite  such  pre  par  a  lie 
comparatively  i.-a.-v  death  ;  cusy,  that  is  to  . 
compared  with  the  horror  which  the  aceou 
cites  in  those  who  hear  or  read  of  tliein.  'Ihi- 
appear  to  be  notably  the  case  in  Mane  kinds 
way  accident.      The  shock  and  jar  of  a  colli- 


outward  injury  done,  an 

yet  locomotioi. 

complicated  and  difficul 

nature  ha--  been  achieved. 

ind  a  space  of  time  hat 

|>a-:.d   vihich  can   not   bv 

my  mean-  be  called  instantaneous  lor  it 

as  sufficed 

or  the  cra-li  and  tumul 

an  end,  and  the  transported  passenger  imds  himself 

settled  and  stationary. 

was  in  a  bad  railwav  accident  -onie  ye 

i.,  ajodis- 

covered  iiiinsC'lt  sitting 

which  tin'  a-vid.-nl   oc-niTcd,   e'.tcrnalh 

How  he  had  got  there  he 

hail  no  cuncepi 

in  any  way  helped  there 

;  of  gearing  thn 

It  can  scarce! v  be  -h.iLl.it- 

ever  during  the  interva 

whkh  e!a].M'il 

ctv.ccllhii 

his  nmin^  hn, 

elfquielly 

-caled  en   the  culling,  many  yard-,  aw; 

in.,n   lh» 

sciou-  suffering.  And,  without  yoing  through  s 
a  hazardous  ordeal  as  this,  large  numbers  of  ■ 
sons  have  had  experience  which  points  in  the  s; 
direction.  A  man  who  is  a  bad  sailor,  and 
crossed  the  Channel  in  really  dirty  weather,  sit: 


on  the  deck,  knows  wha 

it  is  to  be  suddenly  lilted, 

aa  it  were,  from  his  seat  by  some  strange  power 
such  as  that  which  carried  the  prince  and  princess  ii 
the  "Arabian  Nights"  backward  and  forward  throogl 
the  air,  and  deposited  ever  so  far  off  in  a  heap,  among 
ruinous  dibris  of  umbrella  and  cloak,  and  other  im- 
pediment of  a  sick  passenger  on  a  stormy  day.     At 

I'OKTRAITS  OF  \\  \S|  1 1  Mnvrx 


the  moment  of  his  deposit,  a 

to  a  struggle 

c-ull:   n.lh..'.'..~ 
penile  tap  ..ii 

ible  accidents 
resulting  in  prolonged  "agonies  of  death,"  which 
make  every  nerve  of  one's  body  quiver  at  the  bare  re- 
grentchancesin  favor  of  the  victim's 
having  received  just  some  preparatory  jerk,  or  shock, 
paralyzes  that  part  of  his  system  to 
ain  is  duo,  and  so  render  him 


were  doubtless  only  half  alive  to  thel 
discomforts  of  a  vessel  on  which  the  se 
umbness  of  cold  a 


a  of  all  within  tb 
2  persons  of  weak  o_.n-titiition  t 


known  to  be  inevitable. 


^  time  before  death  * 


c;    Lit  sini-ss.  —  "  Every  body  and  his 
ttle  ones  go  to  tin;  Colion  ]'>i.:vi  .At.  A?- 
I'.i  Cooper  Institute,  to  inhale  ih"  lan-b- 
and  have  their  teeth  extracted.     The  Doc- 
reallv  destroyed  the  dread  of  Dentists. 


Burnett's   Cocoaixe   defies    imitation,   and   is 
le  most  perfect  hair  preparation  of  the  age.     This 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 

HENRY  S.  FOOTE, 
Attorney  and  Counsellor  at  Law, 


GOLD    FENS. 


CATAESH  CURED  FOE  OHE  DOLLAB. 


.vl!i>i'i"'!'iV!j'."i'i,!^.,l,li","'v"v!* 


1UU     ';""-   ;  : ,   1   i.-..i|,l,:..f   II  '•   J  I     i    ^ 

1  '  ''  11  \         I     I    I      II     I       I 


'FANDASffGLE." 


iiw  wmBi®. 


All, lie. L  jiie-nuid.      I"IH;DLi;iiJK  1 


63.  $5  00  €3. 


■„,,!.. 


inted  by  John  Cls- 
le  regalia  of  a  Free- 
mason, it  was  lor  many  years  in  the  Bernard 
family  mansion,  at  Fredericksburg.  Tile  other  is  a 
copy  of  one  painted  soon  after  the  battle  of  Prince- 
ton (whether  by  Ciiaku-is  Wilson  Peale  or  V.  M. 
Poi.k  i9  uncertain),  and  believed  to  bo  the  only 


:        (.hie 


pated,  and  all  through  !!■■■  even 
and  long  after  nightfall  the  ship  i 

ing  steadily  at  their  poits  uid  t 


i"  I'  el  the  biiL'lliene.l  |,:mg-. 
i  11  bold  in  the  case  of  those  wl 
■.    a!.. aid  ui  their  apparent   ieme 


dice   of  aine-thctics.      It  is  a  com 

such   Ihim.'s  In  the.-e  days,  when  s 

and  steam  machinery  bring  to  so  many  households 

the  horrors  of  a  dreadful  death  to  enhance  the  usual 

tastrophe  in  the  Bay  of  Biscay,  it  is  a  great  comfort 
to  think  that  a  similar  effect  is  often  produced, 
though  perhaps  not  to  so  high  a  degree,  by  fatigue, 
by  exposure  to  wet  and  <..!d.  by  prolonged  and  anx- 
ious doubt.     Sea-sicklier  ha-  i-pecially,  and  to  e 


.1"  the  Ann  ia<N  l.-.u  i)v.      Theori-iud  |.:iintiug  was 

very  high  degree,  this  effect.     A  man  under  its  in- 

.urncd  in  the  house  of  EmirxD  J.  Lit  in  180-1  hy 

cr.t  copy  of  it  was  painted  at  \\  a-hington  for  Hon. 

Calkb  Lyon,  of  Lyonsdale.    Thisand  the Auuonos 

>icture  were  painted  at  about  the  same  time  while 

jenernl  V  asiiinoiox  yuh  on  the  Ai'dukon  farm, 

Londw  went  down,  long  before  a  tenth  part  oi  tho 

passengers  could  have  become  accustomed  to  tho 

turc,  we  understand,  is  for  sale.     These  two  pic- 

motion of  tho  vessel,   we  mav  be  sure  that  there 

tures  were  considered  to  be  the  best  portraits  of 

were  many  whose  ordinary  sufferings  rendered  i 

Y\  AiniNGTON  during  tho  acth'e  portion  of  his  life. 

impossible  for  them  tv  have  tbut  kceu  perception  of 

MUJAffltD 


D@M'T  BE  FOOLISH. 


'R.L.WOLCOTT, 


Ii      i    tail^e     ljyfor 
1  1    ik 


DUMB-WAITERS. 

JAMES  MOBTATIGH'S  oolebmted  DUMB-WAITERS 


GIFT  BOOK  ESTABLISHIVIENT 


.  r.YAV-  is  lS-Ji. 


February  24,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


CONSTITUTION 

COMPOSED   OF 

I0DIB2  POTASSIUM, 

TTH  THE  COMPOUND  ''ONlT.NTUATED   FLUID 


WILLIAM  H.  GREGG,  M.D., 

Graduate   of   tba    Coiloge    of  Physicians 

Surgeons,  New   York,  formerly  Assistat 

Physician  in  the   Elackwoll's  Island 

Hospitals,  lata  Medical  Inspector 

of  the  New  York  State  Vol- 

nnteer    Depots,     under 

Governor  Edwin  D. 


What  may  seem  a. 


I  l    i    I      l  ii 

During  the  past  five  yeard  we  have  contended  with  ob- 
stacles, and  overcome  opposition  03  herculean  as  were  over 

RAPIDITY  OF  CURE. 

I    Some  say,  "Your  cures  are  too  quick,"  while  others  doubt 

'■■■•■    !■    ■■■      ■■-.  ,.h   :     in   t.    .uli:   II,--   t.  -'v.   Uh.-  ,..   >-.     il.i.-J. 

any  cauae,  down goe3  one  side  of  the  ecu  I..-,  v.,  Uvr  H,.-  .  ;. 
(r.-.'i.  kiL.ui,:  of  the  scale. 

CONSTITUTION    LIFE  SYRUP 

lid  positive  uii-I  H"i.f!-?Jic  !-.vru(y3vl,or;«ll.-h,.I.-ii,\'soni;iQatiDs 
:  ol  VII    <<l    I'M     .mi        II 

PAEAL 

i-    mi  luti     lh  iKliul  T   I       i    ioh  I 
DYSPEPSIA. 

SCROFULA. 

BTBOJI4,  KING'S  EVIL,  GLANDULAR  SWELL! 

This  taint  (debeditauv  and  a^-uikei' 
RHEUMATISM. 


CONSTITUTION  LIFE  SYRUP 

Purges  tlie  system  entirely  from  all  the  evil  oil'.  ■(.■(■=  -■■' 

M;.i-..  u;v,  |-L'!ii-,..VNl!^  His:  Na-1  Bi'O'tih    ;»n4  Ciii-Lifj.  Hi.-  W._-,.;; 
II  111 

CONSTITUTION    LIFE    SYRUP 
Eradicates,  root  and  branch,  all  Eruptive  Diseases  of  the 

ULCERS,  PIMPLES,  BLOTCHES, 

■•'M       I      <l         .!;:,,  uhl.        <   I  1         '     .      .    h   -   I  , 

For  all  Forms  of  Ulcerative  Diseases, 

Either  of  the  Nose,  Throat,  '1  ..acine,  .Spine,  Forehf-ad,  o; 

Moth  Patches  upon  tin'  u-.u-A-  ;  ■■  ■  -.  ■  ;-i>  ■-.    .:,-    .  ■  ■  .-> 

young  wife  and  motl  \  I  -■■■ 

posit,  which  is  directly  undur  the :  kin. 

I  I    I      i        i  ii  Pi       i 

er  unpleasant  symptoms,  will  be  relieved  by  the  use  of 

Constitution  Life  Syrup. 

As  a  General  Blood-Puriiyi 


FIRST     PREMIUM 

IMPROVED 

(bK   SEWING   <fcc 
3,0    MACHINE.    ** 

The  Embodiment  of  Practical  Utility 


Oriainan>ipa'.-:nh-<l  .\[,i. 


L  ' |  III  ill 

II..-.  t..  o.hli  .-v..  [(ii  i,,u  ..J-   tin-  Wiled.      Will  s..v 


t  place."—  GodeyS  Ladies'  . 


,:,:,:: 


.■    III:..-    Ilmnl-:.'!'.  III-.,."  ,\,    .-       I    „,/,-    T,;l,l'll..:. 

■■—--,  ,.:.,k.-.i  in  !».,!<,  with  prtuted  ins  true 

il     1  (  11 


iAMII.Y  01  \l   NlAYiNt;    MAOUINK   oiJinN\, 


TMB  BAYS 

BRASS  JEWELEY 
Are  Over. 

THE  COSMOPOLITAN 

JEWELERS'  ASSOCIATION, 

Capital,  $2,500,000. 
Great  One-Price  Gold  Sale. 

Sell  no  Brass  or  so-called  Plated 

JEWELRY. 

WARRANT  ALL  1EWELRY  GOLD, 

OH  NO  SALE. 

Let  it  be  distinctly  understood  that  tills  is  emphatically 


■Worth  $2,500,000, 


&  SCIENTIFIC  WONDER. 

EUROPEAN  POCKET 
TIMEKEEPER. 

ONE    DOLLAR    EACH. 

PATENT  APPLIED  FOR,  June  20,  18C5. 
.,i?".-;'I;i"' ."'-"V"  '••^l->-fr,s,cK,:,.,.|.,1  r..r  r.n.ii.. 


....  i.,.iii-cs  i.Tiir1"  f,""'i,";i,"  '.„„'.,'  n'i.i! ';.!;;■*; 

!:.!..'>■  »l..l.    Ji.l.i.Ur    1-t  ...-      il,..,-  BUI   ,,„,,  „;,„.,  I.'      .  • 

I',1,,'.'1,!1.11    •  '" -;!    !'■'■"  "•■■".'<"■ '.. . 


PHARAOH'S   SERPENTS. 

;;;»'    ;l".    ■■'•    '■■'   '  "  I".   •-■"'  '.-.'..'.III"  \"iJ.l,'liV">',r.  !' 


•1'  '•""'        t    II  „  I , 


-up  ,ii!i..|,ln,.:,  um  /„/, 


FANDANGLE." 


f'nclimicih 


J.  H.  Winslow  &  CSo. 


Worth  $500,000! 

' "1'   IHXIAIID  TO   Va'lil, 


REKEO  VAX.. 

WINDOW    SHADESAND 


Superfluous  Hair  Removed 


/-tAl.TI.M'IIU.--,  ,„.,,,1„.|,,  ,,-i. I 

»iil,Vi'.,',',i,,"'  "  s."?[.  j'V:n '^'r-liVi';  i"'i,'i,.','.,|l,..l':', '".'.'m',;. 


Pimples  on  the  Face 


H  AR  PE  R'S 

NEW  MOWTHLY  MAGAZINE 
FOR  MAKCH,  1866. 


..ii  men 


PURE    BLOOD 

I  iD  youth,  disease  ,  ml.  .,:!;.-.]<    ... , 


Buy  it,  Take  it,  and  be  Cared. 

WILLIAM  H.  GREGG,  M.D., 

Sole  Proprietor, 

NEW  YORK. 


MORGAN   &  ALLEN, 


Mo.  46  Cliff  Street,  New  York. 


"'.il  ciCOWDEN.P 


GEORGE  C.  GOODWIN  o 
FllI.I.I:,  FINCH  &  FULLER,  Ch 
Jl-'.l-.  1-.  riRK,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
CULLINS  BROTHERS,  St.  LouU, 


(-.,,.,„•,  f,,,.;  r;af.:,  ,.,l.,.-..  ,./  $1.1,  o,-  ,.  bc<inn<:>. 
ha,-,- a  pos.-ibility  of  getting  ft 

Pine  Gold  Watch  or  Piano. 

S.inl  -25  ri.nl.  t..i-  the  Cloli'wu  Envelope,  contain 
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the  swindling  is.  But  it  is  not  enough  to  1 
it.  It  has  been  long  proverbial,  and  we 
not  hesitate  to  press  the  matter  upon  the  p 
attention  that  omethmg  effectual  may  be  t 
A  new  Collector  is  to  be  appointed.  If  1 
the  right  kind  of  man  he  will  save  the  Go' 


THE  VETO  MESSAGE. 


That  the  Message 
be  denied.     Then 


,t  he  l.uuosil)  wishes,  as  he  says,  t 
the  Freedmen  the  full  enjoyment 
rty  wo  fully  believe.  But  he  seei 
entirely  master  of  his  own  position! 

i.rl,ii.A\k-. ](:<'-;  the  usefulness  of  th< 

rth.     But  ho  regards  it  us  a  war  measure, 

war  having  ceased,  he  is  ofopinion  that  flic 
ter  should  he  left  to  the  States.  Yet,  if 
■  ban  ceased,  why  docs  he  support  General 


i  Freed- 


i  Presi 


pt  the  late  rebel  States?  The  Constitution 
iflncs  the  conditions  under  which  the  right 

suspending  the  privilege  may  be  exercised. 

is  only  when  in  case  of  rebellion  or  invasion 
e  public  safety  may  require  it.  Yet  he  ex- 
essly  exhorts  ifs  in  the  Message  not  to  sup- 
)sc  that  the  United  States  are  in  a  condition 

The  Frccdmcn's  Bureau  is  exceptional,  but 
is  so  only  because  the  condition  of  the  coun- 
y  is  exceptional.     All  the  President's  acts  in 


ales  most  surely  and  judiciously  „ud  temper- 
ed secure  the  fmit  of  the  victory  they  have 
m?  Having  given  liberty  to  millions  of 
lves,  how  can  the  authority  that  conferred  it 
aintain  its  perpetuity?  To  suppose  that  a 
creed  adoption  of  the  Emancipation  Amcnd- 


W  I. v  should  wc 
Irtue  which  does 

stmment?     The 


nry  hospitals-  wc 


ndha 


mercies  of  1 
or  shall  tho  United  States  say,  ""We  cut 
mds  that  bound  you  to  the  ground,  and 
11  protect  you  while  you  me  ttrngiding  to 
)0n  your  feet?" 

he  President  believes  that  the  word  of  the 
i  saeredlv  pledged  to  the  freedmen  will  be 
y  the  Mack  codes  of  South  Carolina  and 


Mississippi,  h,s  !a,th  would  ren 
And  if  lie  proposes  to  abandon 
civil  authorities  created  exeln 
who  think  that  the  colored  race 


:  iVeednieii 


■  honestly  wishes  it  to  he. 
-  faithful  to  what  he  con- 
it  interests  of  the  whole 

e  upon  this  .pieshtui  we 
ii,  we  differ  with  iioasper- 


irge  of  discourtesy  brought  against 
oft  for  speaking  plainly  of  the  posi- 
eign  powers  during  the  war  in  the 

Congress  invited  Mr.  Ban- 


,   Jell, 


of  Abraham  Lincoln.  To  do  it  properly  was 
to  speak  of  the  civil  war  of  which  the  late  Pres- 
ident was  a  central  figure;  and  it  was  certainly 
impossible  to  speak  truly  of  the  war  without 
describing  the  unfriendly  attitude  of  England 
nnd  France.     Sir  Frederick  Brcce  probably 


eason  to  be  offended  if  in  a  discourse  com- 
lemorr.tive  of  the  Chief  Magistrate  during  thai 
truggle  the  fact  was  plainly  mentioned. 
Nor  was  it  surprising  that  the  orator  shoulc 


lent  and  the  British  Prime  Ministei 
■ere  the  heads  of  the  two  chief  consl 
ountries  in  the  world,  and  they  died  within  a 
;w  months  of  each  other.     They  were  most 

beir  countries  and  of  their  differing  political 
nd  social  systems,  and  the  parallel  drawn  by 
be  orator  was  entirely  natural,  appropriate, 
nd  instructive.  It  is  simply  impossible  that 
be  true  story  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
e  agreeable  to  the  spirit 
;h  or  French  policy  durir 
ress  invited  Mr.  Bancrc 
fe  did  so  with  signal  ai 
nd  effect. 


They 


ntr oiled  Brit- 
;  war,  and  Con- 
i  tell  the  truth. 


KING  COTTON  KEDTYIVUS. 

In  a  late  Number  of  this  journal  it  was  s 


tade,  go  to  confirm  the  views  then  ex- 
d.  Throughout  the  South,  with  the  ex- 
i  of  a  few  localities  mostly  outside  of  the 
States  proper,  land-owners  are  straining 


be  expected  of  course  ilmt  a  ee. 
portion  of  the  crop  will  be  lost  throngl 

er  of  the  former  will  try  to  cheat 


1867? 
ten  years  ending  in  1857,  the  cotton 

he    United    States    averaged    »l t 

1  hales,  ami  the  price  avei:ii'c,|  about 


pound,  and  at  other  times  rose  as  high  as  16 
cents  for  middling  uplands.  In  i858  cotton 
culture  was  stimulated  by  an  increased  demand, 
both  abroad  and  at  home,  and  the  crop  rose  to 
3,85i,ooo  bales;  in  1859  it  further  advanced 
to  4,C6o,ooo  bales;  and  of  the  crop  of  i860, 
had  it  not  beeri  for  the  war,  it  is  believed  that 
fully  5,ooo,ooo  bales  would  have  been  sent  to 
market.  The  price  was  then  12  @  i3  cents 
per  pound  for  middling  uplands. 

All  estimates  of  the  probahle  crop  fc 
must  depend  on:  1st.  The  willingness 
freedmen  to  labor;  2d.  The  willingness 
planters  to  employ  them ;  and,  3d.  Tl 


1867 


u-lv  rogeih 


nd  laborers  do 


ge  crop  if  the  pri 


)tton  be  high,  planters  will  he 
laborers  fair  wages  for  fair  wo 
ing  to  the  ordinary  rules  of  bun 


Multiline  uplands  ;s  now  worth  in 
44' <®  45  cents  per  pound,  nearly  four 
value  before  the  war.       Ii  >eenis  nut  in  ; 


lpnc. 


crops  on  the  old  scale.  But, 
on  the  other  band,  it  is  equally  unlikely  that 
prices  can  fall  to  the  old  figures.  Within  tho 
past  four  years  the  world  has  made  large  pro- 
gress in  numbers,  civilization,  and  necessities. 
The  United  States  alone,  which  used  to  re- 
quire barely  700,000  bales  of  cotton  each  year, 
will  now  want  over  a  million  bales.  It  is  rea- 
sonable to  suppose  that  the  wants  of  England, 
France,  Germany,  and  Russia  have  increased 
in  a  corresponding  proportion.  This  isjn-oved 
in  fact  by  the  firmness  of  the  cotton  market  in 
the  face  of  a  development  of  a  cotton  supply 
fully  twice  as  large  as  was  expected.  Of  the 
countries  which,  during  our  war,  undertook  to 
supply  t 


111     C.itt 

11,  K;:v|>l  ai. 

the  r.ij'idly 

cotton  goods  in  the 

ia  fully 

cotton 

d  with 

presen 

middli 

e  i.|i!aii.l-d 

7 

II:. 

vrhnt 

he  con 

petition  0 

f  these 

countries 

nld 

be  fell 

and 

Ii 

me  and  a 

h  < 

every  bale  that 

fmill 

rbe«?  " 

.,1  tl. 

product 

ar  exceeded  the 

i860. 

Now,  in  the  old  days  of  slavery,  a  planter 
was  said  to  be  on  the  high  road  to  fortune,  and 
was  willing  to  pay  $1200  for  adult  field  hands 
when  be  could  sell  his  middling  cotton  at  12 
cents  per  pound.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to 
demonstrate,  even  to  the  planters  of  South 
Carolina,  that  free  labor  is  cheaper  than  slave 
labor.  That  is  now  universally  admitted.  If 
then  a  planter  could  grow  rich  by  growing  cot- 
will  be  the  result  wben  he  can  grow  cotton  at 
25  cents  per  pound  with  free  labor?  Will  it 
not  follow,  inevitably,  that  whatever  objections 
the  planters  may  at  first  entertain  to  hiring 


ans  with  their  old  masters,  both 

■  arties   will 

entually,  in  view  of  the  obvious 

Di-ofit  to  be 

ade  bv,  harmonious  co-operation,  ag 

reetowork 

gether  to  grow  cotton  for  the  v, 

orld?     To 

sume  that  they  would  not,  would  be  to  deny 

e  natural  tendencies  of  human  na 

Iftbecropofi  866  should  amount  to  3, 000, 000 

les,  worth  on  the  average  25  cent 

a  pmnul  ill 

Id,  it  would  be  safe,  in  the  opinion  of  sound 

dges,  to  look  for  an  increase  of  33  per  cent. 

1867 — say  a  crop  of  4, 000, 000  ba 

es.     There 

e  those  who,  believing  in  the  broad  common- 

nse  of  the  planters  and  of  the  sou 

the  freedmen,  predict  that  the  c 

op  of  1867 

11  in  effect  prove  the  largest  ever 

nade-over 

g  but  what  can  be  demonstrated  as  cer- 
•  highly  probable.  If  we  raise  3, 000, 000 
his  year— and  the  very  men  who  persisted 
ic  negroes  would  not  work  in  a  state  of 
m,  and  that  we  should  not  grow  a  million 

aith  to  this  estimate— it  is  reasonable  to 
J  that  in  1867  the  increase  will  be  as 
as  is  stated.  And  if  in  i85q  the  world 
ned  a  crop  of  nearly  5, 000,000  bales  @  12 


of  the  world  ;  and  the  Uni 
ment  will  realize  from  the 
pound,  which  it  is  proposed 


The  House  of  Representatives  plainly  made 
mistake  in  refusing  Colonel  Johnson,  of  Ar- 
ansas, the  privilege  of  the  floor,  and  we  speak 


5  properly,  indeed,  ii 
j  investigation  of  t 
■ms  certain  States  m 

1  House  is  honorably  bound  to  take  no  sen- 
s-action upon  any  vital  point  involved.    There 

no  doubt  that  the  resolution  to  admit  Colonel 


upon  it  for  a  snap  judgment  upon  the  question 
already  referred  to  the  Committee,  and  it  was 
undoubtedly  a  natural  indignation  with  such 
an  effort  that  induced  many  members  to  vote 


single  member  v> 
hearty  a  feeling 

Colonel  Johnson 


tooted  rlie 

een  glad  if 


Mr.  Stevens  or  Mr.  Julian 
or  Mr.  Bingham  or  Mr.  Eliot  had  plainly 
said  so,  and,  as  a  mark  of  honor  to  a  brave 
and  noble  citizen,  who,  under  peculiarly  trying 
and  adverse  circumstances,  had  been  steadily 
true' to  the  country,  bad  voted  to  give  him  the 
privilege  of  the  floor.  That  he  had  credentials 
as  a  Keprcsentative  in  his  pocket* 


"'"«    Mr. 
ed  that 


to  allow  Arkansas,  without  further  considera- 

Tbe  vote  would  have  shown  that  while  his  un- 
conditional reception  as  a  Representative  was 
not  a  point  to  be  decided  under  the  circum- 
stances by  his  personal  merit,  yet  that  the  re- 
spect of  the  House  for  t ' 


■  ■    I   1 


)  had  elected 
e,  was  cordial  and  profoun. 

1  le,  the  Union  men  of  Ar 
!D  dolefully  set  forth.      Mei 


March  3,  1866.] 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


flTid  natural  care  that  the  Union  far  which  he 
nnd  his  Arkansas  companions  fought  sha 
E ecured  as  far  as  possible  against  the  peril  \i 
still  threatens  it.    They  will  not  see  in  the 
tion  of  Congress  a  proof  that  they  have  g£ 
nothing  by  fidelity  to  the  Union.     On  the 
trnrv,  they  will  sec  in  the  delay,  with  the  Union 
men  of  Tennessee,  only  a  little  more  sacrifice 
to  make  sure  of  the  perfect  triumph  of  theii 

Wo  should  be  glad  to  see  the  House  recon 
sider  its  refusal,  and  express  the  respect  it  un 
questionably  feel?,  by  admitting  Colonel  John 
son  to  the  privilege  of  the  floor. 


NEWSPAPER  MANNERS. 


'    jKJOjllO     ahi.uil 


i  arcli-Torv,,and  ho  spoke  of  th 
lation  of  Tories  and  Whigs.  Bu 
fierce  as  party  quarrels  were,  he  does  not  re 
cord  that  Whigs  maligned  each  other,  or  tun 
Tories  abused  Tories. 

The  necessity  of  harmonious  party  action  t 
secure  desirable  results  in  a  free  country  is  in 
disputable.  To  that  end  a  certain  courtesy  be 
tween  those' of  the  same  party,  who  may  diffe 
as  £  points  of  policy,  is  indispensable.  For 
getfulness  of  tliis  fact  is  a  blunder  of  which  w- 


are  surprised  to  see  even  veteran  journalists 

and  politicians  guilty.      Yet  the  conduct  of 

ward  some  of  their  party  allies  would  have 

amazed  even  tough  old  Exdon.      Certainly  the 

New  York  Tribune  helped  neither  its  cause  noi 

its  own  influence  and  character  when  it  spoko 

of  an  editor  of  a  journal  of  its  own  party  as  "  a 

little  villain, "  and  cried  to  another,  "You  lie, 

you  villain  1"    In  like  manner  Mr.  Stevens's 

late  speech  bristled  with  stinging  sarcasms  of 

the  President,  whose    good   faith   even   Mr. 

Stevekb  could  not  question,  and  whose  co- 

operation with  the  dominant  party  of  the  coun- 

try certainly  can  not  he  wisely  repelled. 

But  this  want  of  sagacity  and  good  manners 

is  not  confined  to  what  i.  called  the  radial 
wing  of  the  Union  party.  Thus  the  New  York 
Times  can  not  repress  a  tone  of  reckless  con- 
tempt in  speaking  $f  its  party  friends  from 

whom  upon  some  points  il  differs.  It  is  fond 
of  culling  Mr.  \V~].xm,Li,  Phillips,  for  instance, 
"a  common  scold;"  hut  is  it  nut  the  most  com- 
mon'and  vulgar  scolding  to  speak  of  faithful 
Union  men  whose  views  of  justice  and  good 
policy  differ  from  its  own  a;     ' 


and  "the  amalguniationists.' 


We  expect  to 
epithets  in  the  New  York 
News  or  World,  whose  personal  abuse  of  Presi- 
dent Johnson  a  few  months  since  made*the 
old  Aurora's  abuse  of  Washington  seem  tame 
and  dull.  But  why  should  a  Union  paper  de- 
scend to  such  slime? 

The  Times  speaks  of  the  colored  people  of 
this  country,  whose  condition  and  conduct  cer- 
tainly merit  something  better  than  sneers  from 
eveiy  faithful  American,  as  a  class  "  which  not 
only  hold  themselves  to  be  the  saviours  of  the 
nation,  but  who  find  a  powerful  faction  both  in 
and  out  of  Congress  clamorously  asserting  these 
preposterous  claims  on  their  behalf."  If  the 
Times  concedes  that  disloyal  ignorance  shall 
vote,  why  is  it  preposterous  to  suggest  that 
loyal  ignorance  might  vote  also  ?  It  describes 
those  who  do  not  adopt  its  own  news  of  policy 
as  "revolutionists  iu  Congress  who  threaten  the 
Executive  with  impeachment  unless  he  bends 
before  their  decrees."  "When  and  by  whom  was 
this  threat  made  ?  It  sneers  at  the  same  per- 
sons as  "  those  who  desire  to  use  the  negro  for 
party  ends."  Those  who  would  do  this  are  of 
course  those  who  love  party  supremacy  more 
than  justice  or  equal  rights.  But  if  the  point 
should  he  pressed,  which  wing  of  the  Union 
party  would  probably  be  found  guilty  of  the 
charge  ?  The  Times  was  doubtless  disgusted 
when  Mr.  Stevens  was,  but  as  it  proved 
wrongly,  reported  in  the  warmth  of  debate  to 
have  called  the  President  "the  pundit  at  the 
other  end  of  the  avenue."  It  undoubtedly  held 
Mr.  Sumner  guilty  both  of  impolicy  and  had 


ing  a  "whitewashing"  message  to  Congress. 
But  how  does  it  suppose  its  own  readers  are  af- 
fected when  it  deliberately  describes  the  Speak- 
er of  the  Assembly  of  New  York  as  "  bucking 
and  gagging,"  and  sneers  at  him  as  "  his  High 
Mightiness"  and  "His  Loftiness?"  If  this 
strain  when  indulged  by  an  orator  with  wit  and 
point  makes  him  * '  a  common  scold, "  what  does 
it  make  of  a  newspaper-writer  who  uses  it  with- 


rvice  against  an  adversary,  hui 
ies  it  is  worse  than  foolish,  h\ 
exasperation  which  imperils 
jects  of  the  party.      Different- 


tionable 


Long  well-bred  persons?     Differences  there 
ast  be,  but  Time  will  work  wonders  if  e 
dv  keeps  his  temper.    It  is  easy  t< 

"  naves;  but  it  is  hard  tc 
expect  them  to  continue  to  regard  us  as  friends 


Of  soldier?,  sailors,  and 
marines  was  lately  held  in  front  of  Independ- 
ence Hall  in  Philadelphia  to  urge  the  equaliza- 
tion of  bounties,  and  a  general  movement  wil 
undoubtedly 

he  felt  iu  the  elections.  In  speaking  of 
estimate  of  the  Paymaster-General  that 
sum  necessary  for  this  purpose  would  bo 
less  than  $r,r>0, 000, 00U,  we  said  that  the  q 
tion  might  be  considered  settled,  because 
we  supposed,  the  soldiers  themselves,  who 
proved  their  devotion  to  the  country,  would 


li'uiuiuhle  then-claim  might 

wo  must  be  just  before  we  ar 

ing  that  wo  must  pay  the  di 

cslly  and  distinctly 

sume  or  create  others.     Of 

saying  that  the  man  who  volunteered  early  and 


HAMPER'S   WEEKLY. 


[March  3,  1866. 


JIabch  3,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


HAEPEE'S  WEEKLY. 


[March 


rcallv  ( 


,,,,^, 


„ro  Has.    Wt  nil  kii..»  Mi- 


!:,!:;:.'£! 


wu  hair  nl    mvful  .imtl.s?i';iti..n> 

,1  conspiratios  nmoiw  trio  blacks. 
■  North  is  entered  upon  it  crnsnilc 
•  »c  linvo  no  more  dmihl  tlimi  u-c 


Texan  are  to  thi 

lonrccii°wWc0hSpii 
rlonbt  wo  know  t 


rroiusc  with  the  mjins-.  pdisoniiir: 

mil  111111=,  preparing  them  for  what 
The  signal  has  already  been  piven. 


Any  night  wo: 

j.nr.-.l.'uv.l     J,,     ■!:.'    1lllli:d- 

sloped.     There  was  much 
effect. 

"You  need  not  f.sn'  mv  i 


oold  convey  to  them 
:ruek  tho  young  min 
rg,  on  a  grar  '  ■" ' 


d,.prr.-:inng  from  the  stump  tins  very 
he  was  spe:.kitie,  linli 
mlattocB  in  tho  county 


;:;;:'z," 


L'lin  s  ''  ' 
■l.,-;-.,K.i 


id  book,  Mr.  Arthni 
peasantry  of  Franc, 


MissAlic 

lint,  Mr.  Arthur;  but  '. 
heart,  all  tho  negroes 


ire  guilty  of  tin-  In"-'   tcinMC   ot   crimes 

They  can  not  be  watched  against  too  carefully, 
nor  dealt  with,  "lien  detected,  too  severely." 

«  Yes  ;  but  what  I  hale  "  broke  in  the  impuls- 
ive Alice,  "is,  that  wc  should  be  in  a  condition 
requiring  us  to  be  afraid  of  any  body,  requiring 
us  to  be  keeping  up  a  watch  all  the  time.     I  am 

n-':  :i  Indian,  r.'itli  el"wiu^  ilieik  and  sparkling 
oyo,  "andlcnn'tbcari..iliiuk  the  Smith  should 

cSarii'nndro'ispirliries.  Th.-y  «..iitu.s'evcn 
to  be  looking  around  to  see  if  any  ol  iho  negroes 
arc  near  before  we  speak  ;  wan  lung  l»st  they  be 
peeping  through  keyholes  and  listening  behind 
ilut.,,;  whispering  and  talking  low,  and  using 
all  sorts  of  devices  to  hido  our  meaning.  If  s  a 
row-anllv  cnnilit ion  to  he  in  !" 


What  a  .Inldyouarc! 
)  n. willful  child,  the  route:  heanty  onl; 
arched  her  brows  and  shook  her  head. 

ly  know  pa  always  tnucli!  mo,  and  yoi 


ro  nlwavs  taught  inc.  and  an 
ight  roe  to  admire  Kiiekmd 
■re',  luittiing  of  the  sort— the 
re:  and  iippieln'inliiie  I  uiran- 


aliont'theCharl- 

drgn-c  thev  are 
But  I  must  go  to 


niuerville.     tine  day   Soniei 

ii-  saihli-nlydisrovcicd  ti>  be 
tan  of  the  many  spe.dilt  •  n  , 

i>  revolver  eirt  beneath  his 
uvcrol.  however,  to  he  the  v 


« 


baby  is  that  boy?"    ;'  Mass 
ing,  wtiat  lives  down  by  de  steam-mill,  an' 
de  boy  what  burned  down  de  1 
gaily, "  was  his  prompt  replv. 

*  ■fire!  This  lime  it  origi 
__,  By  this  time  Mr.  Withers 
from  being  onlv  a  drinker  of  whisky  1 
degradation  of 'being  a  seller  thereof: 


b\  de 


frlel    "All 


ight  I 


2p  against  the  counter,  by  George ! 
good  many  newspapers,  I  know, 
die  any  where  near?    Of 


by  George !  in  the  dark  ?  I  don't  pretend  to  say 
how  mv  place  caught  afire,"  continued  Mr.  With- 
ers; "but  one  thing  I  do  know,  Jem  Budd's 
gun-shop  is  next  door— was,  by  George !— to  my 
place,  and  we  enn  easily  guess  why  any  incend- 
'  ,ry  would  want  that  burned  down.  The  other 
ring  I  know  is,  that  lam  regulnrlv  denned  out 


lilj  li'iu 


igett 


■fire! 


The  excitement  was 
Lamum's  explanation 
be  the  true  one?     Was  ihe  country  rcallv  filled 
i  incendiaries?     It  certainly  looked  like  it, 

i  theory.  Dry  and  hot  ;»  the  dimmer  was 
3  were  altogether  too  many  fires.  To  do 
Ferguson  justice,  with  every  new  conflagra- 

he  became  more  positive  upon  the  subject. 
:ious  even.  It  had  become  one  of  his  storm 
i,  which  his  pastor  had  learned  to  avoid. 
nother  increase  of  excitement!  Mr.  Isaac 
:h,  the  painter,  had  been  out  of  his  shop  all 
painting  at  Colonel  Kh  KoborN's  new  office. 

did   not  return   to  it    until  bedtime— Mr. 


e  floor  while  grains  little  larger  than  the  be 
a  pin,  whieh  burst  into  flame  on  being  trodd 

ton  or  nibbed  in  the  band.  Not  that  Mr.  A 
thur  himself  got  to  see  any  of  these  torpedoi 
"   it  the  story  was  told  him  by  a  dozen  lips. 


appeal 


Peters, 


singularly  t 
body  was    1; 


l.      Ming 

ly  tame  and  uninteresting  where  every 
"  "  ;.  Everv  fresh  number  of  ihe 
was  filled  wiih  the  topic,  to  the 
of  evvvy  thin^  eUe  :  conspiracies  de- 
n  hung,  the  whole  North  engaged  <ys- 
y  in  the  work  of  Southern  destruction. 
The  paper  was  frenzied  in  its  descriptions,  nsser- 
is,  invectives;  and  it  was  but  one  of  bun- 
ds of  sheets  employed,  few  with  equal,  none 
b  greater  abiliiv,  to  the  same  end. 
'What  (to  von  think  about,  it?"  asked  Mr. 
thur  of  bis  friend  Guv  Brooks.  It  is  impos- 
Ic  for  anv  human  being  lo  live  for  any  length 


alh.lhe 


■■■anient  of  Son 
i  ol  Sam  Pete- 
h   like  .Mrs.  Wn 


r  Mr-.  Warner  is  really.'  rciirly — ah,  well. 
It  certainly    *   ? 


;p.ui,    Mr".    Brook-. "    persisted    Mr.  . 
■•  I  would  like  vo  know  what  you  do  thh 


vi- 


nor  unite  made  up,  as  we  knaves  at 
Wait.  I  certainly  have  mv  fear- 
on  the  subject.  But  it  is  really  too 
r.  1  miiv  lie  mistaken.  God  grant 
I'm  wrong  Tm  glad  of  it.     V  " 


I    ;,n,V    It,!- 


assist  at  the  fire.  The  Major  a 
them  when  we  lived  in  ( 'harlcM 
excitement.  If  Rutledgc  Bow 
would  not  even  have  stopped  to 
"I  have  no  desire  to  go.  I  i 
Mr.  Arthur,  quietly /and  Alice 


■•'M   Mr;. 


behindhim' 


s  hastily-buttt 
too,  she  saw  the  butt  of  a  revolver  gl. 
light  of  the  conflagration.     And  i 


>  the  ti 


li'.h'  l 


and  singular  emotion  which  stirred  in  the  bosom 
of  this  young  and  impulsive  girl  as  she  stood 
beside  Edward  Arthur  that  night,  aware,  she 
hardly  knew  how,  of  his  pale  face  and  set  lips 
and  fixed  resolve.  Not  that  he  said  any  thing. 
Mrs.  Bowles  engrossed   the  conversation   with 


nfifigrations 

ie  other  schoolgirls,  Alic 

n  of  tho  young  preacher 


ndnlged    i 


ndevelopcd  in  her 

jrved  that  when  v 
midnight  fi 


you  are  suddenly 
feeling  about  you 


I.    It  might  bo  incidenl 
;  young  people  had  bee 

me  roof.     It  is  amazin 

ionsequence  of  that, 
they  had 'conversed,  thought,  and  felt  together- 
all  in  a  natural,  imperceptible  way — from  week 
to  week.  We  will  say  nothing  about  any  im- 
pression which  may  possibly  have  been  made 
upon  her  by  Mr.  Arthur's  purity  of  character 
and  refined  breeding,  and,  above  all,  his  en- 
thusiasm in  bis  profession.  You  may  not  have 
thought  of  it  before,  but  an  honest  enthusiasm 
in  any  good  cause  is  one  of  the  most  beautifying 
things  in  this  world :  it  imparts  a  light  to  the 
lip  and  to  the  eye,  an  uplift  to  the  whole  per- 
son! A  quiet,  unfathomable  enthusiasm  is  the 
light  and  bliss,  the  element  of  hea1 


icxt  dav,  wheq,  true  to  his 
as  as  Scotch  in  hi-  belief  of 
i  of  the  fire  as  ever.     There 


r  refui 


Mr.  Ferguson  t 
native  heather, 
rfbe  accidental  n 
is  nothing  peop] 


fleeted  superiority  to  every  body 
else.  ■;<  sclf-as-ertion  in  such  a  course  which  is 
positively  insolent.  • 

' 'Everv  ^n-iflo  person  in  Somerville  has  ex- 
pected the  burning  of  that  lacior\  from  the  out- 
set of  the  summer,"  .aid  Mr.  Ferguson.  "It 
wa--  one  pile  of  tinder  from  top  to  bottom:  cot- 
ton, wool  lying  all  about,  and  a  raging  furnace 
in    the   centre    oj    it.      Incendiary?      Stivff  and 

Not  an  adherent  did  Mr.  Ferguson  have  to  his 
theory.  He  only  held  to  it  with  the  zeal  of 
thou-'aivls  concentrated  in  himself.  Besides,  he 
had  entered  upon  a  new  collection.  It  had  oc- 
curred to  him  din  i ng  the  la-r  few  days  to  collect 

so  far  been  publi-hed  upon  the  subject  of  the 
burning:-  and  conspiracies.  "A  rare  treat  it 
will  be  to  read  them  after  the  delusion  is  over," 
he  said  to  him-elf ;  and  he  entered  with  an  en- 
fhnsja-m  upon  the  -iibjc.-i  whieh  he  had  not  ex- 
perienced even  in  making  up  his  treasure  of 
Baptism. 


?ment  in  Soinerville,  as  well  as 
vhole  region,  who  can  describe! 
,s  thought  or  talked  of.     Arms 


nd  "Oh, 

e;  the  rifle  and 
;  past  a  door- 
crack!   of  pis- 


rich  Involution1  the  other  night.  Yo 
the  negro  alluded  to  therein  standin 
magistrate  in  St.  Domingo,  with  blac 

.  pulm  covered  with  a  lew  white  tcci 

his  hand  :    the  while  seed   had  tli-an- 


-  mounted  the  stump  in 
but  he  has  had  ncgroe 

ms ;  negroes  attending  t 


naught  fire  long  ago 
-  during  such  a  sea 


day !     In  fact,  he  never  denied  the  thing.     The 
authorities  had  prohibited  the  usual 


vas  bis  candid  explanation  lo  .Mayor  and  Coun- 
il.  "Nobody  put  me  up  to  it,"  he  persisted. 
'  Mass  George  he  say  sha'n't  go  to  church,  an' 
lat  babv  weigh  five  hundred  pound!" 

Now  "what  to  do  with  this  negro  boy?  that 
vas  the  question.  For  four  weeks  Scip  lay  in 
he  jail;  that  was  all.     Longer  than  that  his 


ast,  has  any  stump  speaker  failed  in 
5  dwell  upon  Abolition,  conveying  t. 
earers,  and  through  them  to  every  b 
krath,  all  the  information   any  hu 


.  oiiicl.oih  ,■ 


:■,  hearing  a  lighter  mlant.  he  sinned 

ut  for  months  he  considered  humclt 

i  'haii  otherwise.     More  than  once, 

about  Somerville  on  warm  Sunday  I  of  the  fire,  : 

,-ith  his  charge,  in  answer  to  the  1  nected  with 


vers,  at  ion  that  Mrs.  Bowles  wa- 

" Don't  be  alarmed,  Madam;  it  is  me— Mr. 
Arthur,''  said  that  gentleman,  in  answer  to  her 
hurried  exclamation.  "  Please  get  up  and  dress 
yourself— Miss  Alice, 

There  Mrs.  Bowles  and  Alice  found  him  when 
hey  had  hurried  on  their  dresses.  But  no  need 
o  ask  him  why  they  had  been  aroused.  Even 
lefore  they  left  their  bedroom  the  ruddy  glare 

they  stood  upon  the  front  porch  the  whole  con- 
flagration  was  distinctly  visible,   turning  night 

es  darkly  upon  ihe  ground.  Full  in  view 
m  the  eminence  on  which  it  stood,  the  Som- 
■ille  Factory  was  one  vast  blaze  from  the 
ground,  and  with  flames  which  towered  high 
ivc  the  lofty  roof.  A  six-story  edifice,  re- 
itly  completed,  thoroughly  furnished,  and 
owned  by  a  Northern  Company,  the  e-iabli-h- 

*-,  a  good  deal  sneered  at  as  "that  Yankee 

in,'   was  none  the  less  the  b 


,nu   upon  i 

.ili'r-.  '    li 
■■ward  tin. 


to  the  blacks  the  Sunday  afternoon  serv- 

d  been  long  stopped.    Now  patrols  scoured 

treets   from   dark    till    broad    day,    firing 

promptly  upon  all  necrc 


ery  negr 

hour  by  a  large  com: 

"And  nothing  fou 

headed  Mr.  Ferguso 


u  tne  Son 

Somerville  was  v. 


id  red- 
boxes  of  caps, 


mor.  In  one  case,  at  least,  several  glass  hot- 
el,-.., of  powdei  were  eciiainlv  found  ill  a  negro's 
cabin.  Very  promptly  was  he  had  up  before  the 
Mayor,  but  as  he  seemed  more  amazed  at  the 
iny  one  else,  he  was  a-  jirompily 


rela 


liinu 


ih.n  if  din 


more  about  it 
"im   was*  raised 


him  up,  and  welcome. 
:e  my  oath  he  knows 

do.     Why,  gentlemen 
ie !    Nursed  by  the  sam 

zcther  a  thousand  times. 

dian  if  I  was  his'owi  brother."    And  while 

mm  waxed  short  of  luvath,  and  redder  i'1 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


Brooks  had  said  more 
to  liis  friend,  Mr.  Art 
tnken.     Wait.     Let  1 


were  deranging  the  whole  of  us,"  said  Mr.  Ar- 
thur one  evening  to  Mrs.  Bowles,  about  a  week 
after  the  destruction  of  the  factory,  *<=  **">■"  •=•>* 
out  upon  the  porch  in  front  of  the  h 


and.     Mrs.  Bow 


the  house, 

™\v  r^h 

ling   r.M   Ini, 


I...    ,l..v,n    at    nigl.r, 

had  carved  at  his  hospitable  table  many  a  joint 
and  turkey,  rested  safe  under  her  pillow.  And 
her  guest  never  spoke  to  her  on  the  subject  j  yet, 
before  lying  down,  he  never  failed  to  take  the 
axe  from  the  woodpile  and  secrete  it,  restoring 
it  to  its  placo  before  dawn  next  day.  And  he 
could  not  but  confess  to  an'almost  sheepish,  if 
not  mean,  feeling  as  he  did  it— a  sense  of  being 
ashamed  of  himself,  he  knew  not  why. 

And  now,  as  they  sit  upon  the  porch,  they 
hear  a  rapid  foot  along  the  street.  Every  ear 
had  grown  painfully  attentive,  every  eye  keenly 
alert  lately.  The  person  stops  at  the  front  gate, 
shields  himself  in  the  moonlight  behind  one  of 
the  gate-posts,  and  begs  Mr.  Arthur  to  step  there 
a  moment.  Mr.  Arthur  does  so,  and  finds  an 
there.  The  Alderman 
.crman,  although  turtle 


negroes  have  arranged  t 


i|">n  tin:  subject. 
lid  Dr.  Ginnis,  in 
"Weave  alannin 


tliousli  the  news  be  the  d 

ath  of  one's  own  fa- 

Th  it  night  Xnmerville  s 

Witlftlie  single  except 

Leaving  every  window  ot 

evnyhioi'unlnrkr:d,[lieSt 

ing  particularly  sound,  in 

on  of  Mr.  Ferguson, 
his  house  open  and 
tchman  made  a  point 

open  defiance  of  the 

r,he,Dr 
ig.    It 

Mr.  X 

Warne 

bachcl. 

.i.l Iin;i-ter 

■  ne.  after 

■■■■'. 

£Ji 

,.  wind 
he  teeth 

jws,  and  had 

•ising 

it  was  morally  impossible 
speak  of  a  Northern  born  d 
contempt. 

.\-     !:■:■     ..  ..Hi.-     lilins-f...'! 

f i    receiving   Dr.  Ginni: 


gills,    by    George;     flctuail) 
Ins  wits!"  was  Bob  Withers'; 


and  plci 


ire,  as  in  every  thing 

is  any  ground  for  ap- 
lis  companions;  "but 
ely  certain,  not  know- 
:  and  Corporation  rest 

d  no  plan  in  case  there 
te  negroes  do  attempt 
ing  to  do?  Will  the 
-,  or  will  they  rise  sep- 
h  place  attacking  their 
»  What 
,  if  Rut- 
nd  Mv<. 


servant  boy  Charles  and  his  wile  v.rre 
their  room'  to  l-o-l,  lie  quietly  lorkrd 
(t.  begin  with.    Next  he  laid  the  douhle- 

-li<><-L'iiii  within  ea>y  reach  in  rli- ■  1m.1I, 


s  a  needless  alarm— a  good 

tughed  over  hereafter. 

;  Mrs.  Bowles  seemed  rath- 

3  like  alarms  parsed  ilirmigh 


iround  her  shoulders,  Alice   aszain  seated  her- 
elf  on  the  step  of  the  porch,  leaning  herself 
igainst  the  column. 
Mrs.  Bowles's  house — Ratledge  Bowles's  prop- 


erty she  prei.-rre.l  calling   i 
the  outskirts  of  Somerville,  no  other  house  wi 
several  hundred  yards.    The  moon  had  now  g 
down;  only  the  clear  bright  stars  illumined 

her  on  the  porch,  somewhat  in  the  shadov 

abandoned  himself  in  silence  to  her  loveli 
as  she  sat,  her  face  and  eves  turned  up  tov 
the  shining  stars.  Ah,  that  feeling  of  love, 
love,  love  unuttered  as  yet  even  to  the  ol 

the  silence  by  a  word,  while  he  blessed  the 

Alderman  for  his  news,  forgetting  for  the  1 
the  nature  of  the  news  altogether. 

It  seemed  suddenly  to  occur  to  his  compa 
that  the  situation  was  becoming  an  emharras 


Sally  answered,  'You'd  1 
can't  tell  me  some  neios! 
phasis  on  the  word  news. 


;  she  knows  how  i 


family,  and  if  c 

"The  truth  i 
pause,    "they  I 

mean  all  the  ne 


1  Sally  were 

s  were  indulged  they 

t  companion,  after  a 
tch  from  the  public 

[VdTii00tnwonder?h7y 
nds.     Besides,  there 


;e  all  they  know  to  th 
l  why  their  Sabbath  s 
f  their  preachers — I 


away  in  the  fervor  of  his  prayer  as  to  have  prayed 
most  fervently  for  Freedom.     And  where  they 

bondage  in  Egypt,  one  day  to  be  delivered  by 
God,  it  is  impossible  to  say,  but  they  certainly 


the  Gospel  requires  it  to  be  among  Christians. 

even  preaching,  upon  the  subject.  Besides,  we 
do  know  that  in  main  .v-.j  „■.■■...  ;i,.  m-ii  mi,  ,.  . 
a  positive  evil  to— well,  to  us— at  least  I  fear  so. 
But  what  to  do  with  them  is  the  question.     If 


:-— ii,-> 


we  ship  off  the  three  millii 
would  relapse  under  its  climate  into  DarDansm. 
They  do  not  do  well  in  any  sense  when  free, 
either  here  or  at  the  North.  I  confess  it  is  all 
a  puzzle  to  me."     Mr.  Arthur  spoke  earnestly. 

"And  how  is  the  puzzle  to  be  solved?"  said 
Alice,  her  eyes  fixed  upon  the  fleecy  clouds  roll- 
ing  rapidly  by  over  the  deep  blue. 

"The  Providence  of  God  will  solve  it,  and  in 
His  own  time  and  in  His  own  way.  I  am  con- 
i-'io  ...  » rut,     -  inl  I ifT  .  ompanion,  quietly. 

"It  is  strange,  Miss  Monlton  making  us  read 
Gnizot's  History  of  Civilization,"  said  Alice,  aft- 
er a  while,  in  a  dreamy  manner,  "I  do  not 
know  what  makes  me  think  of  it  to-night.  It 
was  very  dry  at  first,  but  I  became  deeply  inter- 


other  direction  altogether." 

"I  have  been  reading  Dickens  ever  since  I 
can  remember, "  said  Alice,  after  a  long  silence ; 
"and  there  is  one  theme  running  through  all 
his  pages,  and  I  do  believe  it  is  his  dwelling  so 
eloquently  on  that  theme  which  makes  his  books 
so  popular.  I  hardly  know  how  to  describe 
what  that  theme  is— a  steady  denunciation  of 

aimiiiiinal  dwelling  upon  the  excellence  of  lov- 
ing-kindness toward  the  meanest  and  humblest." 

"Peace  on  earth,  and  good-will  toward  men ! 
Yes,  and  this  Song  of  the  Angels  at  the  birth  of 
Christ  is  becoming  every  day  more  and  more  the 
substance  and  staple  of  all  popular  literature. 
Perhaps,"  added  the  theologiai 
in  the  highest  may  ( 
strain  also  as  the  worl 

In  what  a  singular, 


»  be  blended  i 


"  Do  you  remember  Tennyson's  lines— [  Ring 
,ut,  wild  bells?'"  asked  Alice. 

"And  its  close— 'Ring  in  the  Christ  that  is 
obe?'    Perfectly  well." 


kslcy    Hall,    all    full    of    ,!,« 

nuod  Ali.r    In  i-  l„.:,,|  .,iil   1 


.    \,.u    suppo-e 


•The fact  ia^i 


id  her  companion. 

i  too  when  he  --peak-,  in  on 
■   '-:'|^.."r  '"■  slowly-dyin 

(•Trophe.  *   ol".  ami   all    Hon 

I  ..rr.-udali-iu-   ,es,  /.;„./„, 


There  follow;,  hereupon  a  long  silence.  Hoi 
were  thinking  exactly  llie  same  thing.  Like  a 
persons  at  the  South  these  two  had,  1'rom  (he 
childhood,  singular  ideas  at  times  to  Hash  npr 
their  minds— ideas  easily  staved  off,  but  oftc 
y    ideas,    disagreeable    idea' 


Both 


would  deny  ever, 
charged  with  sue 
thoughts,  both  ai 
"How,  then, 
is  an  ugly  word,' 


adds,  "how  full  of  fancies  one  feels  such  a  night 
as  this!" 

"Only  one  hundred  years  ago,  or  so,"  says 
her  companion,  our  'peculiar'  institution,  as  we 
well  call  it,  existed  over  the.  whole  world:  no- 
thing peculiar  about  it  then.  Just  look  al  il  to- 
night. Outside  of  the  South,  of  all  the  civilized 
world  only  Brazil  and  Spain  retain  it.  Brazil! 
Spain  I  And  here,  on  this  continent,  if  was  once 
unrestricted  of  its  whole  area ;  now  it  is  crowd- 
ed down— a  thing  abhorred  and  hunted  down  by 


J.'rrrr.l    1 

sia    Man- 
eagerly. 


watching  agains 

us.     That  then 
Ws.'— it  strike 


which  has  overthrown  slavery-  every  where  else, 
under  us  too  this  very  night.  Pshaw!  what  non- 
sense! and  for  a  South  Carolinian  too!  What 
I  hate  about  it  is  that  those  Yankees  at  the 
North  think  they  arc  so  wise,"  said  Alice,  gay- 


f  God,"  he  replies. 

f  theory  of  my  own,  Miss 

KTog:  ■;;  :,j: 

wrong  thing  must  go  down  before  God.  No 
use  attempting  to  make  a.China  or  a  Japan  of 
the  South.  Open  the  gates  must  fly,  down  the 
walls  must  go ;  the  Gospel  will  have  free  and  per- 
fect access  to  every  human  being  that  breathes. 
Just  see  those  Btars,  great  worlds  they  are,  all 
moving  so  unswervingly,  so  musically  upon  their 
*  '  a  Almighty;  ' 
'thi 
,nd  love  of  God  !  Such  i 
voices  of  men  h 


them  all  that  God 

of  its  race,  God  and 

nforei 

ch  assurance  of  His 

mid  all  in 

hat   He  i< 

ml  Inr,  find 

wears  the  natnre  of, 

lly  for,  the 

least  human  being 

t!    T 

at  his 

bar:  as  ye 

did  it,  or  as  ye  did 

:oward  every  being  on  earth  made  in  His  im- 
age, how  idle  and  senseless  and  despicable,  do 
ill  our  smugglings  against  it  seem!  To  acknowl- 
edge and  bow  to  that  Supreme  Will  is  the  act  of 
'"  nee.  To  acquiesce  in,  to  ex- 
Will  as  in  that  of  one's  own 


Alice, 
anym 
perma 

nd  you  do  not  have  much  faith,"  sa 

•ven.ent  in  defense  of  slavery,  or  in  t 
nenco  of  any  government  based  on  sla 

"  Not  the  least  in  the  wo 
.anion,  quietly.      "Nor  will 

There  was  a  long  pause 

Id,"  said  her  con 
uch  a  mad  expei 

by,  pointing  to  the  reddening  hovi 

Mi 

s  Alice,  but  one  kindled  by  no  hu- 
is  the  dawn,"  said  her  companion 

lid  Mr,.  Jinnies  |inlienl  and  ft 
.  Hulledfc  Howies  nliniit  it,  All 


ffi 


;   Of  diS 


throughout  Somcrvillo, 
a  sense  ot  Having  necn  cheated  and  defrauded, 
as  people  yawned  and  stretched  fliemselves. 
Alderman  Dr.  (iiunis  sank  fifty  per  cent,  in  the 
opinion  of  every  body.  However,  like  all  other 
light  yet  bulky  bodies,  his  depression  on  the  sur- 
face of  things  was  but  for  the  moment;  his  the 
imperishable  property  of  bobbing  up  again  when 
wind  and  wave  might  serve. 

"Of  courso,  do  you  suppose  they  would  rise 
after  they  found  we  had  put  every  body  on  their 

As  to  Mr.  Ferguson,  coming  down  that  morn- 
ing from  his  peculiarly  sound  and  refreshing 
sleep,  more  inflexibly  Scotch  than  ever,  he  was 
insolent  even'in  his  triumph,  hard  to  be  endured 
by  people  surly  after  a  sleepless  night.  How- 
ever, people  were  used  to  Ferguson. 

"And  who  sat  up  with  you,  Alice?"  said  the 
school-girls  to  her  next  day. 

"My  mother,  of  course.  And,  dear  me,  how 
stupid  it  was  I  No  rising  at  last,  either.  I  was 
so  disappointed!"  wild  Alice. 


',{.,',„  ■■  ll-'l .'l 


'.::,';:;;  ";,: 


;  ;,;::::■:"■■■ 


[.,  Mn-  iKiM.im.  ..    pit    -  ii'.'-r  -'.|'|f'0'l   '!"it"  iirv 
!  1,.-  .    ,|.t....n   ..    I..    I    I. ins    Il--     If    ■ '1    '■ ■ 


il..*.-mr  ,i  wire  ,wm 


flv, *  *  Vabi  whw—Sowb  odo  hiving  lavishly  Ii 


TWO  NEGATIVES  MAKE  AX  AFFIRMATIVE. 

,,,.   i,,,.  ,,,„i   rr|,ii,Hl  t»  m-,   ".V',   HidiiiJ,  no!" 
,1.  her  meaning  I  venture  I  n  pi.'Oy  tr<  ■ -!  L-n.--, 


THE       IRON-CLAD 


ACHILLES,  26. 

Iron  Ship.    6121  Tom;  1250  Horse-power;  Length  880  ft. 

Beam  58  ft.;  Arm,,,   P.  in.;   Badda.  18  in.  i  lour  meats 

Built  at  Chatham  1803;  Armed  With  GK-ton  100-p 

61. -tun  rilled  guns. 


AGINCOURT,  2C. 
Iron  Ship.     6621  Tons;  1350  Horsepower;  Length  400  ft. 
P.,-:.,.,   !■'.<  ft.  ;    Arm,,,-  5'  ,   in.  ;    Backing  10  ' 


i;i.).i.i;m tiiox,  id. 


,0ft.;  Iran  Ship.     4270  Tons;    Killll  llor.-e-p.wer;  Len-il,  ;,„,.. 

]astg.  Beam  50  It.  ;   Armor  6  in.  ;  Backing  10  in.  ;   Armament  ,i 

gunSi'  300-prs.  in  protected  battery,  and  6  110-prs. 


ENTERPRISE,  4. 
ron.aucd  Shop.     093  Tons;    100  Horse-power;   Length 
ft.  ;    Beam  30  ft.  ;    Armor  4>.<  in.  ;    Wood  ship  si 
Ariiie.l  ivilh  4  G>£-ton  guns,  1( 


Wood  ship  side  19^ 


.rmor  41<  in.  ;  Wood  slii],  side  22  i 
in  batten-  wholly  protected,  and 
ed  with  a*08-pr.  shunt  gun. 


U- 


Iron  Ship.  6621  T, -lis;  13:,0  Hoi'se-power;  Length  400  ft. 
Beam  59  ft. ;  Armor  by,  in. ;  Backing  10  in. ;  Carries  ! 
800-prs.  and  22  100-piB. 


Iron-cased  Ship.     4047  Tons  ;   1000  Horse-power  ;   Length 
273  ft.  ;  Beam  58  ft.  ;  Armor  i}i  in.  ;  Wood  ship  side  29 '  , 
'    lecls 


Iron-cased  '''■   ,  "  '  1',  us :  600  Horse-power;  Length 

225  ft.;  Beam  50  ft.;   Armor  Hi  in.;  Wood  ship  side  22  ill 
"'  <-ton  guns,  and  2  110-pr.  Annstronga. 


"":f 


RESISTANCE,  l(i. 

■%.     3710  Tons;  COO  Horse-power ;  Length  280  ft. 
54  ft.;    Armor  4"_,  in.  ;    Backing    18  in.     This  ship  i 

y  „],,,,, I,  and  lias  a  pr  '      '" 


ROYAL  ALFRED,  35. 

/A,,,-,-,;.,-,/  Ship.  Int.",  T,,ns:  <S0O  lI,,is,>ih,\vor;  l.i'llf'lh 
273  ft.  ;  Beam  58  ft. ;  Armor  6  in.  ami  I '  .  in.  ;  \V,:,u,i  ship 
side  29'  .  in.  ;  Armament,  10  12-ton  150-prs."  inside  battery  on 

guns  on  upper-deck 


;  Armor  6  i 
lent,  10  12-to 
70-prs.  outside  battery,  and  4  6^-t 


VIPER,  2. 
Dwibh-Bermlrm  Gun-Boat.    737Tons;  107  Horse-power 

vngtb  1  60  ft.  ;    Beam: 32  1'..;  Armor  I ■'-,  m.  ;  Backing  10  in. 
nnaincnt  rnroba  ,  ,■  ).  2  7-it,    mm,.     I:, .:/./: ,   ».„»_.. 


fj„'ot,a!,|e; 


""'„>,    i  ■:    in    ;    I,.,,  line    Hi 
gun-  :    lhitldirt<j  at  Poplar. 


VLXEN,  2. 

Double  Screw  Iron  and  Wood  Gun-Boat.     754  Tons; 
lorse-powcr;   Length  Hill  ft.  ;   Beam  32  ft.  ;  Armor  i}{  i 


WARRIOR,  40. 

Iron  Ship.     6109  Tons;    1250  Horse-r 

;.,  Length  over  all  420  ft.;  Beam  58  ft.,  

lacking  18  in. ;  Armed  with  68-prs.  and  100-pr.  Arms'"™ 


E  T      OF      ENGLAN  D. 


Ship.  6109  Toll-  ;  ll'.'-H  I[i.i~('-|imimm' ;  Li-n.tttl) 
mm  58  ft- 1  Arnit.i-  +i.  in.;  Bucl-.iiig  18  in. ;  Sister 
\Varribr;  Armed  with  C8-prs.  and  10O-nr    ^ 


CALEDONIA,  31. 

Iron-cased  Ship.  I  UTi  Tuns  ;  1000  lluisf-powei-  ;  Lcntilli 
27:1  ft.  ;  ISi-uni  :V.l  ft.  ;  Arni.ir  IV,  in.  ;  \V,.«I  shi|.  sidi-  ■_>'.>  1.," 
in.  Built  at  Woolwich.  Armed  with  "" 
Armstrong  guns. 


110-pr. 


I,,,,  Ship. 

Hi-mil  r. i  it. ; 


LORD  CLYDE,  24. 


31li  in. ;  Built  at  reniiiroKe  -,  iviiiuiniiint,  main-neck  zu 
ion  7-in-  "nea  guns;  upper-deck  4:  7-iu.  rifled  Armstrong 
l-lowling  guns. 


LORD   WARDEN,    2.1. 


Iron-cased  Ship,      Ilistl  T..111;    limo  I  l..i-a-- power  ;    Lenglli 
80  ft.  ;  Beam  .V.)  ft.  ;   Ai-nior  4>  ,,  f.li,  mid  1;  in.  ;   Wood  -hip 


side  31%  in. ;  Built  at  Chatham ; 


MINOTAUR,  26. 

Iron  Ship.    6021  Tons;   l:ir,l)  lloi>c-poivei- ;  Length  400  ft. ; 
'       Armoi-r,'.;  in    ;    l',i,.-kii.i;  Hiin  ;   llnili  inBli.ck- 
',  main-deck  -1  150-prs.  10W  in.  12-ton  guns, 
100-prs.  7  in.  OJ^  ton  rilled  guns;   upper- 


PRINCE  ALBERT,  4. 
d    Cupola  Ship.    2537  Tons;    500  Horse-power 
1  ft.  ;   Beam  48  ft.  ;  Armor  4  in. ;  Backing  18  in. 
h  4  12-ton  guns  in  revolving  turrets.      Th,    ■.hip  is 

m   ,7,,o,V   /..,"   Hi'..,.-    ,,  :'-/.    /.,  .     /..,/.'!,:!,  /,,   1.1-1,     ,,/ 


PRINCE  CONSORT,  35. 

Iron-cased  Ship.  4045  Tons  ;  1000  Horse-power ;  Length 
273  ft.  ;  Beam  58  ft. ;  Armor  4K  in. ;  Wood  siiip  si-ie  'J'.i'.i 
in.;  Armament,  10  68-prs.,  7  110-pr.  Armstrongs,  8  6%-ton 
guns ;  Crew  605. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  3, 


THE  STORY  OF  ERNST  CHRISTIAN 
SCHOEFFER. 

Bt  AMELIA  B.  EDWARDS. 

I  prnrosF.  relating  the  story  of  Ernst  Christian 
Schooner.  In  order  to  do  thi-  eircumstanlially,  I 
will  begin  I'v  stating  that  lip  was  the  only  child  of 
Dorothea  and  Wolfgang  Schocffer,  of  Ulm,  and  was 
lorn  in  :m  ii[.|«fi  chamb'r  of  a  loii-e  <>n  lie  <,r.d,en, 
in-t  fhirtv-one  Vcars  since. 

Wolfgang  SHiot'lt'-r  belonged  to  a  somewhat  bet- 
ter class  than  (ho  majority  ol'  his  neighbors.  He 
was  poor,  but  not  abjectly  poor;  and  ho  had  seen 
Ho  was  a  Booond-hond I.  allot  by 


lim  the  Lord's  Prayei 
ot  drown  himself  in 
sGraben.     His  fathe 


Ernst  Christian  S, h...>ftor  wa- 


that  precious  gilt  thai  no  mere  tr. lining  r 

nrlo 

more. 

Nat   ever  wi.   incorporated    .an   a.  Inn 

■   nothing 

ouard  the  ,. reduction  ol  an  artist.     Tin 

s  his  from  very  birth.    He  enjoys  it  evei 

hefn 

re,  he, 

lli-iii 

he  heaven  of  other  babes  lies  about  him 

'.i-'v     and  for  him  alone  of  all  the  son 

hat   "vi-ion  splendid''  which   even   na 

""  '  1 iti'il  as  In'  Iraveleil  on  to  later 

''.""  •  n«o  Iho  lielil   ,, „„„„„, lay." 

t   u;i-  tint  li'mM   \ 


looks.      A  good  third  ol"  Wolfgang 
;  consisted  of  Piblos— Bibles  of  all 


From  these— from  the  "storied  windows"  a 

altar-pieces  of  the  churches  round  about — from  t 
'.otlii.  fountains  , it  the  comers  of  the  streets— aljr 
all,  from  the  cathedral,  with  it*  rich  sculptures  a 


every  niche  and  saint  anil  ram 
nd-.'.own  gra-s  that,  waved  alo 
anacle.     He  knew  it  in  the 


thedral!      Few  travelers  1  urn  »'i 


l.ni   li    and    I 

hearkened  to 

,     The  relic- 


niticd  ivory  carving;  the  choir  with 
delicate,  wonderful  oak  sculptures,  its 
fruits  and  flowers,  its  loce-Iike  canopi 
triple  rank  of  heroes,  Pagan,  Jewish, 


lapels 


rlimvcil   il;ilf,  as 


year  by  year, 
stinct  pnerally  dm 
f,  in  all  kinds  of  blundering  first  attempt 
tried  his  prentice-hand  upon  every  m 
t  fell  in  his  way.  Ho  scrawled  upon  h 
in  his  copy-books;  ho  dabbled  in  claj 


oighhoring  bouse-painl 


characteristic  of  Ems' 


■    o-peeiallv    vharaeteristie    Hal 


chamber  on  tbo  evening  of  tbo  very  day  when  bis 

It  was  about  six  o'clock  on  a  bleak  November 
night.  The  stairs  creaked  under  his  feet  as  he  went 
feeling  his  way  in  the  darkness,  and  rehearsing  the 
words  in  which  he  meant  to  begin.  On  the  land- 
ing ho  paused,  and  guided  Iv  a  thread  of  light  upon 
the  threshold,  lapped  at  his  father's  door.     No  re- 


using by  Ho  tabic  with  a  framed 
;  before  lim  and  a  key  in  his  hand, 
boy  in  a  sudden  paroxysm  of  an- 


i  want?"  he  said,  furiously.    "  How 

i  uitlumt.  knocking?" 

mein  Vater,  but  — Gott!  what.a 


liugorin-ly.  (,  Though  too  eold  in  color  and 
in  effect,  the  portrait  was  as  highly  bui-hed  a-  a 
miniature,  and  as  patient  in  detail  as  if  it  had  come 
from  the  easel  of  Memling  or  Floris.  It  measured 
about  twelve  inches  equaro,  and  was  inclosed  in  a 

which  was  glazed,  worked  upon  hinges  like  a  little 
door,  and  locked  with  a  small  brass  key. 

The  boy  forgot  his  own  purpose,  his  father's  an- 
ger, and  all  else  at  the  fight  of  this  treasure.  He 
pressed  forward  to  look  upon  it,  but  the  bookseller 


j  nothing  to  thee,"  he  said,  hasti- 


I  have  none.     The 
me  for  another  term 
rho  is  to  pay  for  i 
berg  than  myself." 

Herr-president  signed  m 
ic  said,  if  you  wished  to  en 

ed!"  interrupted  Sehoeffer 

It  is  nothing  to  me 
n  times  when  I  sea 

ce  knew  wbero  to  find  foo 

•  it,"  replied  the  book- 


-•aid,        "Pool  ! 


■  l: ■ 


,  not  mad.  I  won]. I  Ik.-  mi  l.rerul  and  iva- 
a  painter.  I  would  beg  my  way  to  Rome 
fvou  would  only  let  me  go." 

would  you  do  in  Rome,  pray, 


din    and    lell    I 


hat  I  was  a  poor  German  boy  who  loved  art,  and 

The  bookseller  struck  the  table  angrily  with  his 

"  Let  me  hear  no  more  of  this,"  he  eaid.      "You 
alk  like  a  fool." 
■'But-" 


■e  !       Nol  another  word.      Get  \  on  do\,  n 
lid  Fran  Martha  make  the  soup  hot  for 

■  f,bo\ed  reluctantly.      As  he  reached  the 


'[  will  never  speak  of  it,  father." 

'You  promise?" 

'I  promise.     But  whoso  portrait 


Andt 


"Sin-    u.i 


loomily.     "There— von  have  looked  long  enough.'' 
'■  May  [  sCC  it  again  to-morrow?" 
"No,  not  to-morrow— some  day,  perhaps.     Now 

\  and  remember  your  promise." 
"  I  will  remember  it,  and  keep  it,"  said  Ernst, 

lie  made  his  way  slowly  down  the  dark  stairs, 
liul  hm  over  all  that  lad  been  said. 

'•  My  mother's  portrait !"  he  muttered  to  himself. 
To  think  that  he  had  my  mother's  portrait  hidden 

When  he  had  reached  the  bottom  step  he  sat 


;  length  he  sprang  1 


,nd  I  will  paint  as  well 

n. 

hoeffer  carried  his  poir 


ow,  indeed,  half  the  poor  students  live  whom  one 
i  himself,  a  marvel  and  a  mystery.     Thus,  frou 


is  fifth  year  was  drawing 
ing  forward  with  somcthii 
)  chances  of  achieving  i 


dearest  may  lie  flying  a  thousand  miles  away 
II"  limi'  i  Main  and  t  lie  cheapest  carriage 
boar  biin  to  them.  Our  poor  young  painter  h 
most  to  beg  his  way  to  Ulm.      How  his  prayer 


I  counted  the  miles, 


the  d.ivs  the 

lour-,  that'lav 

between  him  and  the 

which  only  he  who  had  experienced  l..im  could 

At  length, 

after  nearly  th 

ee  weeks  of  painful 

■  found  himself 

the  blank  cxp 

|,roaelio.l    Irom  the  side  of  Sw 

tzerland.     Plodding 

iln-lvinail  tha 

seemed  as  if  geomet- 

ndtng  line,  the  young 
landscape  will-nigh. 

-in, -,t    before 

h,i  .  ii.dcnr 
eager  eyes" 

i-works  of  Uhn 

became  visible  to  his 

nail  that  mom, 

as  if  he  had  but  first 

e  long  day's  m 

rch,  and  entered  the 

gates  of  his  na 

avspast  tlieoon 

-ily  upon  him.     He 

-■l.at  ho  she 

,1,1  never  hoar 

is  father's  voice  nor 

shock.     Death  i: 


1  ii.n-.a_. 


the  reality  of  his  misfortun 

a  hard  blow.  Although  the  bookseller 
so  often  absent  from  his  home,  although 
r  he  had  been  iiinlonnin:=ti\iiivo,  careless, 
ml  irritable,  "till,  in  his  own  strange  way, 
,-eil  bis  -on,  and  the  young  painter  felt  his 

I-  Ihre-liolduf  what  had  once  b  ea  Imnie. 
in  t lail-ne-sas  if  his  heart  wore  bredi- 


zure.  byeasy  stages, 
enses  attending  his 
ndance,  and  the  out- 


-cars,  and  cost  the  victor  many  a  fall  and  many  a 

and  monev-lender  in  the  Anlage.     Applied  to  by 

Frau  Martha  when  her  master  lay  ill,  he  had  ad- 

io became  a  painter.     He  even  went  to  Rome. 

vanced  a  certain  loan  upon  the  bookseller's  stock, 

A  drawing  made  in  secret,  and  sent  up  anony- 

and  when  all  was  over  laid  peremptory  claim  to  his 

nously  to  the  Government  School  of  Art  in  Ulm— 

money.     A  valuation  having  then  been  taken,  the 

1  prize  carried  off,  and  a  year's  gratuitous- instruc- 

ion  gained  thereby ;  a  second  prize  achieved,  and  a 

econd  year  gained;  a  third,  and  its  results  a  gold 

could  get,  which,  after  all,  fell  below  the  amount 

medal  and  a  purse  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  florins— 

he-c  were  the  steps  by  which  the  youth  struggled 

on  to  the  fulfillment  of  his  hopes. 

the  streets  of  his  native  city. 

His  father  stormed,  railed,  argued,  and  finally 

At  length,  when  the  first  burst  of  anguish  was 

•ielded  a  sullen  acquiescence. 

past,  the  young  man  turned  his  face  toward  (he  An- 

That purse  came  as  if  dropped  direct  from  heaven. 

lage,  and  presented  himself  at  Herr  Schliermacher's 

-very  florin  in  it  was  stamped  for  him  with  the  magic 

tame  of  Rome.     Those  two  hundred  and  fifty  coins 

The  banker,  a  small,  plump,  pleasant-looking 

epresented  in  his  eye3  the  inexhaustible  riches  of 

Jew,  with  a  shining  bald  head,  and  a  pair  of  brill- 

opportunity.    They  opened  the  gates  of  knowledge 

iant  black  eyes,  received  him  civilly  enough,  and 

n  hi-  eager  footsteps.      They  were  his  passport  to 

ushered  him  into  his  private  room.    The  painter  in- 

formed him  that  he  had  come  to  inquire  into  the 

Ernst  Christian  would  not  have  spent  a  fraction 

r;ui  i.-ular.-  of  the  sale. 

ofUiat  prize  in  Ulm  for  all  the  temptations  that  as- 
sailed Saint  Anthony.      He  regarded  it  as  a  sacred 

Herr    Schliermacher    elevated    his    eyebrows, 

shrugged  his  shoulders,  shook  his  head  significant- 

deposit — (it  was  worth  about  twenty-two  pounds  of 

lv,  and  thrust  his  hands  into  his  pockets. 

English  money  !)— and  having  paid'  in  two  hundred 

"The  particulars,  Herr  Sehoeffer,"  be  replied, 

of  his  florins  at  Herr  Schliermacher's  bank  to  be 

"are  told  in  a  dozen  words.     I  advanced  certain 

transmitted  to  Rome,  he  took  fifty  for  his  traveling 

moneys  upon  vour  father's  goods,  three  hundred 

expenses,  and  set  out  for  the  Eternal  City  with  a 

florins  in  all ;  our  excellent  friend  the  Herr  Doctor 

h-'ht  heart  and  a  -till  lighter  knapsack. 

Philipart  furnished  him  with  medicines  and  attend- 

lie  did  not  literally  make  bis  way  from  Ulm  to 

Rome  on  foot.     It  would  have  cost  him  more  than 

penses  came  to  one  hundred  florins.      There  was 

lis  fifty  florins  for  food  and  lodging  by  the  way  if 

also  a  half-year's  rent  owing  for  the  house  on  the 

he  had  done  so;  but  he  traveled' by'ihe  four  lb  class 

Graben,  besides  a  few  trifling  bills  for  smaller  items, 

as  far  as  any  German  railway  would  carry  him; 

making  about  thirty  florins  more.      Taken  alto- 

and be  walked  through  Switzerland,  and  over  the 

gether,  the  liabilities  Ml  little  short  of  five  hundred 

Alps;  and  what  with  a  lift  in  a  peasant's  cart  now 

florins,  and  the  effects  realized  just  three  hundred 

and  then,  or  a  cheap  fare  by  rail  or  diligence,  he 

and  forty-five.    Not  a  kreutzer  more  or  less.    Here 

'ound  himself  one  evening,  just  at  sunset,  before 

are  the  accounts.     You  can  examine  them  at  your 

the  gates  of  the  Porta  del  Popolo,  with  only  a  few 

convenience." 

March  3,  1666.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


and  substituted  "at  my  leisure." 
"  By  all  means." 
He  rose— he  hesitated— ho  had  evidently  soi 

■There  i-  one  very  precious  and  sacred  relic,' 
faltered,  ■•  which  1  would  five  much  tonossess. 
"If  it  be  any  thing  - 


lo  so,"  replied  the  b 


The  i 


The  yon nj;  man's  question  came  -with  hot  e 
less :  tlie  Jew's  reply  with  cool  composure. 
"  Why,  yes— no  one  better.      That  picture 


;  both  with 

civilest  imperturbability  imaginable. 
'Exactly  so,"  he  replied,      "ft  is  a  charming 
lo  thing,  and  I  really  value  it." 

-my good  Hen-Si  liber- 


ie heavy  a  loser  in  thi 

than  the  whole  of  my  poor 


picture— my  daughtei 


"  Not  as  a  work  of  art. 

feel  in-iilie.lin  keeping  it. 

"  What  would  you  do  w 

repaid  myself  fl'Omt 

to  yourself." 

The  painter  turned  pale. 


'  cried  the  young 

;  were  I  should  not 


..'. 


i  if  he  were  taking  this  request  into  consideration, 
"Good  Heavens  l"exrlaimcd  Ernst,  impationtlv 
is  it  possible  that  you  hesitate?      Do  I  ask  an\ 

ling  unfair— anv thing  unreasonable?     Think,  Sii 

-think  if  it  were  your  own   mother's  portrait—; 

lother  who  had  given  her  own  life  for  yours— " 


way.     Doyou  paint  portraits,  Herr  S.  hoetVer  ?" 

".Of  course  I  do  !  May  I  paint  yours  ?  Oh, 
dear,  excellent,  amiable  Herr  Schliermacher,  let 
paint  vonr  portrait!" 

The  Herr  Schliermacher  smiled,  and  shook 
head. 

"Not  mine,"  he  said.  "I  would  not  giv 
kreutzer  for  my  own  portrait;  but  my  daughtei 

"I  will  paint  her  for  you  in  any  stylo  you  pie.- 
Only  tell  me  what  you  wish  done,  and  I  will  do 

The  banker  was  excessively  amused. 

"I  must  speak  to  Salome  first ,"  he  replied,    ' '  i 

you  more  about  it.^ 

{),-,    ,-.  funii'd  'he  mllowin-  da\  .    1-  ]■<-■  ivr    bid. 

and  to  his  supreme  joy  tho  banker  informed 
that  his  daughtei 
might  begin  on  tt 

."As  for  terms,"  said  he,  "we  will  make  it  pic- 
ture for  picture.  Ton  shall  paint  my  daughter's 
portrait,  and  when  it  is  done  you  shall  receive  your 
mother's  in  exchange.     Will  that  content  you  ?" 

"  Perfectly." 

"  And  you  will  not  object  to  paint  my  Salome  on 
a  somewhat  larger  scale?" 

"  You  shall  have  her  at  full-length,  life-size,  after 
the  manner  of  Vandyck." 


Poor  Ernst  Christian  Schoeffer!  it  was  his  des- 
tiny. He  fell  desperately  in  love  with  Salome 
Schliermacher.  She  was  very  lovely— lovely  with 
tho  dazzling  oriental  loveliness  of  Rebecca— of  Ra- 
chol — of  Mariamne.  He  had  not  seen  a  woman  in 
Italy -to -compare  with  her.  Her  skin  was  of  that 
soft,  rich,  tender  brown  which  so  enchants  us  in  the 
Madonna 


to  eat  his  evening 

the  sordid  attic  like  a  glory.      It  gave  quite  a  de- 

slice  of  melon.     It  turned  tho  water  in  his  pitcher 

his  eyes  fixed  all  the  time  upon  his  newly-recovered 

have  warped  away  from  the  stretcher  at  one  cor- 
ner, nnd  that  the  picture  bulged  in  the,  middle,  as 
old  pictures  are  sometimes  apt  to  do.  Ho  had  long 
since  resolved  to  carve  an  exquisite  frame  for  it 
some  day;  now  it  occurred  to  him  that  the  paint- 
ing would  lie  improved  by  w  hat  is  technically  called 
"backing."  That  is  to  say,  by  being  relieved  from 
tension,  and  pasted  down  upon  a  freshly-strained 


with  his  knife.     Tho  1 


;  all  events  Herr  Schlie 
ot  given  it  to  him.     So  he  forced  tl 

hinges  ami  proceeded  to  remove  tl 


Leonardo's  portrait  of  Joanna  of  Naples.  Her 
handB,  long,  white,  slender,  were  Vandyck's.  Her 
gestures,  her  attitudes,  were  Titian's.     The  young 


Again  the  painter  turned  away  disheartened ;  but 
ain  the  next  day,  at  the  same  hour,  he  re 
the  charge. 

■  1 1,  it  Seh Sid  marlier. "  lie  began,  "will 
;  .-am  that  portrait?  Will  you  take  me  inl 
ice  ?  Will  you  receive  me  as  one  of  your  clerks  ? 
vrite  a  good  fair  hand,  and  I  am  a  tolerable  ac- 
untant.  If  you  will  agree  to  this,  I  will  work 
c  you  without  salary  till  I  have  earned  the  picture 
ck  at  whatever  price  you  choose  to  set  upon  it." 
The  banker  laughed  outright.  _ 
"My  dear  Herr  Schoeffer,"  he'said,  "gentlemen 

your  profession  are  the  very  worst  stuff"  in  the 
arid  to  cut  bankers'  clerks  from!  No,  I  thank 
tu.  No  aesthetic  accountants  for  me.  Besides, 
you  worked  without  pay,  how  would  you  live  ?" 


week.     I  can  live  on  dry  bread ;  I  have  done  bo  be- 

"Yei  are  a  most  energetic  young  man,"  said 
Herr  Schliermacher ;  "and  you  deserve  to  succeed 
in  life.  What  a  pity  you  were  not  brought  up  to 
business! — you  would  have  made  a  fortune." 

"  I  do  not  want  a  fortune.  I  only  want  my  mo- 
ther's portrait.1' 

The  Jew  shrugged  his  shoulders. 


sorrowing.  He  desired  the  picture 
and  each  fresh  rebuff  only  quickened  his  intense 
longing  for  it.  He  remembered  how  his  father  had 
treasured  it,  and  he  also  remembered  how  it  was  the 
only  earthly  record  of  a  mother  whom  he  had  nev- 
er been  so  blest  as  to  know. 

The  next  day  he  was  back  again  at  the  money- 
lender's office  with  a  fresh  scheme. 

"For  the  fourth  time,"  he  said,  "I  come  to  ap- 
peal to  you.     If  you  have  the  heart  of  a  man  you 


The  banker  tapped  impatiently  up' 

' '  Be  brief,  if  you  please,  Herr  Set 
plied.  "My  time  is  valuable,  and  I 
thi    is  the  last  occasion  on  which  I  can 

"This,  then,  is  what  I  have  to  propose.  Give 
me  three  years  in  which  to  earn  the  one  hundred 
and  fifty-five  florins,  and  promise  me  that  you  will 
neither  sell  the  portrait  nor  give  it  away  during  that 


And  all  this  time  the  infatuated  young  painter 
thought  each  new  dress  and  .attitude  more  becom- 
ing than  the  last,  and,  Penelope-like,  spent  as  much 
time  in  undoing  his  work  as  in  doing  it. 

"When  it  is  once  finished,"  thought  he,  "all 
will  be  over.  I  shall  no  longer  hear  the  daily 
music  of  her  voice ;  I  shall  not  dare  to  intrude  upon 
her  privacy;  I  shall  be  as  much  parted  from  her 
.-,..  ,;■  lV(.  livr.l  in  i  i'.o  ;--C|iaraie  In-nii-pluT.-^.  \\  mo 
better,  then,  can  I  desire  than  that  the  picture  may 
stay  in  progress  forever  ?" 

He  was  readv,  in  fact,  to  spend  his  life  upon  it; 
and  I  am  by  no  means  prepared  to  Bay  that  the 
beautiful  Salome  was  not  quite  as  well  disposed  to 
prolong  the  task  as  himself. 

Meanwhile  Ernst  Christian  was  living  within  an 
inch  of  starvation.  Having  once  been  a  pupil  in 
the  local  school  of  art,  h 


nd  to  all  things  mortal,  and 
despite  alterations  and  delays  innumerable,  the  por- 
trait of  Salome  Schliermacher  at  length  approached 
completion.  There  could  be  no  question  of  the  art- 
ist's perfect  success.  He  had  been  painting  with 
his  heart  as  well  as  with  his  hand,  and  the  result 
was  a  portrait  of  such  force,  such  delicacy,  such 
complete  and  life-like  portraiture,  as  would  have 
made  the  fame  and  fortune  of  a  painter  in  any  city 
less  hopelessly  stagnant  than  Ulm.  The  beautiful 
Jewess,  holding  a  fan  of  peacock's  feathers  in  her 
iinnrl  nnd  rlrnssed  in  a  rich  robe  of  white  satin  bro- 
.-.t.'pping  from 

It  was  a'  por- 
trait that  Paolo'Veronese  might  have  designed  and 

Rubens  painted. 

"Herr  Schoeffer,"  said  the  banker,  when  he  came 
in  one  morning  toohserve  the  progress  of  the  work, 
»T  am  so  well  contents-nay,  so  much  more  than 

,;    keep  VOU    Imii-T    v.illioiil 


von,  il'you  ehoo=c,  to-day." 

F.rn.sf  iv.n  as  trratvful  a>  if  b"  had   r 


picture,     it  was  neiti"  in  its  >-    „a 
brass  buttons  green  with   jerdigrifij  i 

Then  ho  saw  what-  it  was  Hint  hi 

surface  of  tho  canvas.     No  wonder,  i 
hail  warped  away  from  the  frame  !     It 


eu-o  with  xrraps  of  dm.lv 


ErnstChristinriSehoeihiTrii  <|iiiie  indigmml  w 
ic  perpetrator  of  this  U 

"The  Goth!"  ho  mi 
een  done  in  Bavaria. 

int  of  his  business." 

Ho  laid  the  picture  tenderly  a 


toward  him  from  the  ivst  of  the  heap— 
a  dirty,  oblong,  yellowish  scrap,  rilled  in  with  sev- 
eral lines  of  close  printing  in  the  middle,  .and  ndnr I 

at  each  corner  with  a  little  engraved  medallion.  II, 
took  it  up— belaid  it  down— he  snatched  it  up  again. 
Then  he  plunged  his  hands  wildly  into  the  midst  of 
tho  heap,  and  took  up  first  ono  little  crumpled  sera p, 


ow  the  i 


heap  toward  him,  and  ex 
frantic,  feverish  avidity  t 
its  intensity. 

Every  one  of  those  pup 


s  English.     And  they  % 


a  hundred  franc-  t 

fifty. 
The  I 


i  must  go  mad  with  joy.     Ho  laughed- 


It  was  a  complicated  task.     In  order  t 
plish  it  with   any  degree  of  accuracy   In 

translate  the  language  of  eaeh  eurreney  int. 

him  a-l.'.'p  In  I 


>ffer,  the   bankrupt  hook^ll-r. 

i  inhabitant  of  the  old  liou-'o  oi 
st  been  a  miser  after  all.     No- 


ha\  i:   known 

than  any  Co 


had  been  known  to  all  tho 
lal  collectors  and  booksellers  of  the  Conri- 

that  hundreds  of  precious  volumes  had 


casion,  he  had  both  receh 
highest  prices  on  record 
editions.  Perhaps  one  oi 
story  lay  in  the  fact  that, 


..i  :i.,i\  importance.  It  ap 
habit  to  .led,  a.-,  it  were,  in 
at  a  time,  and  alway-  to  h 


the  oddest  parts  of 
among  all  the  old  books 
le  on  the  Graben  from 
is  not  found  one  x 


1  succeeded  in  picking 


■  turning  his  money,  journeying  ' 


gold.  His  brain  was  clearer  now,  and  his  pulse 
steadier,  than  either  had  been  tho  night  before; 
and- again,  therefore,  ho  sot  to  work,  like  the  me- 
thodical queen  of  the»nursery  rhyme,  "a  counting 

It  caino,  when  so  counted,  to  no  less  a  sum  than 
one  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  florins;  that  is 
to  say,  to  about  ten  thousand  and  two  hundred 

pound-  ..|  Kn^lish  money. 

^  How  the  painter  deposited  his  fortune  in  Herr 
Svuliermacher's  bank;  how  that  excellent  gentle- 
man marveled  at  tho  samo,  and  took  a  quite  pater- 
nal-interest in  tho  young  man  from  that  moment; 
how  he  invited  his  dear  young  friend  to  dinner  that 
very  evening;  how  Ernst  Christian  made  his  ap- 
pearance in  the  hunker's  drawing-room  at  six  o'clock 
punctually,  dressed  in  a  suit,  of  resplendent  black, 
and  looking  as  if  he  had  never  known  what  it  was 
to  be  hungry  or  shabby  in  his  life;  how  the  beau- 
tiful  Salome,  grown    suddenly  quite  shy  and  dis- 


)ry  of  the  picture  padded  with  hank- 
hrough  the  country  and  made  its  ap- 
every  newspaper  where  the  German 
written  and  spoken;  how,  finally,  be- 


tlian   a    passim;    rec.nl.       We  haiv  givei 
seek   in  I'lm  (tie-  cradle,  of  his  hum-  an. 

■    of   his   alVeelime-0   for   all    thai    is   yet.  lefi 

.f  the  More  .if  l'.ni..l   Clin-liai,  Selm-dler. 


IRON-CLAD  FLEET  OF  ENGLAND. 

About  a  month  ago  wo  gave  n  doithle-page  en- 
graving of  the  iron-clad  fleet,  of  the  United  States. 

scale  of  tho  iron-clad  fleet  of  Groat  Britain.  The 
whole  number  of  vessels,  wooden  and  iron,  in  the 
British  fleet  at  tho  present  time  is  735,  of  which  30  . 
arc  iron-clad.     Our  illustrations  include  every  one 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  while  the  whole  num.- 
nor  of  vessels  in  our  navy  is  less  by  a  few  ships  than 
tho  number  of  vessels  in  the  British  navy,  our  iron- 
clad fleet  is  hugely  superior  to  that  of  England  in 
numbers  and  far  more  efficient  in  character.      In 


aHu5eDwShCJrfde\! 


s 


■  oi     ■ 


Mr.  iM'Kav  especially  recommends  the  sugges- 
ions  of  Secretary  Welles  as  U 
four  uavy-yanK  work-shops,  dry  dork'-, 
ng-yard  of  proper  size  ft 

[  fitting  'complete  of  the  largest  iron-clad  ships, 


The  Lord  Clyde  and  Lord  Warden  are  v 
light  draught.      The   r-»n<  was  constructed  as  ? 
defense  agmi-t  future  Altdjomns  and  Florida?. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  3,  1866. 


March  3 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


equal  length  of  atrofce.     Cylinders  b 

been  made  larger  than  this  in  diameter,  - 

case  recently  for  one  of  the  English  iron-clads,  t 

they  had  only  one-third  the  length,  the  engine  he 

inn  «  stroke  of  only  four  feet. 
_  The  largest  cylinders  in  the  world  heretofore  v 
yialis,  of  the  I  nil  |;iv< 
li,  having  a  stroke  of  12  feet,  had  adian 


CASTING  OF  THE  ENORMOUS  CYLINDER  FOR  MARINE  ENGINE  AT  THE  STtU  WORKS,  HEW  YORK  CITY,  Fsdrcabx  8, 


HAMPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  3,  1866. 


nn.l  v 


Other  organizations  iho  Tliirtci-ntli  nml  Ninoti. 
regiment?,  fill  occupied  sent*  at  the  iMe*.  Afi 
the  regiments  had  os-mMi-d  tilnmt  thetuM.-?,  11- 
^9.  S.  T.  Ptiianahan  welcomed  tho  returned  rc| 
mont,  in  ticbolf  of  tho  War  Fund  Commits  und  I 
citizen.*  of  Brooklyn,  in  a  von-  appropriate  cpf-ec 


Woodford  to  moke 


t  iking  p.-irl  in  i'iv  m<  V  ' 


I...MI........  :.....    Tho 


]';.,..  ..p.,lf  -...ml.  Tl-i  «  ■  '■"■"'  or  les-s  the  ea=e 
throughout  tin-  South.  I.ut  wu«  specially  so  in  Mis- 
sissippi, Louisiana,  antl  Texas.  In  order  more  ef- 
fectually to  serve  tin-  '  [■(■■■.pic.  Hi"  Bishops  h-ive 
diviJed  the  whole. Souther, L.-nntry  into  four  ML^ion 
Districts — one  of  which  comprehends  Mississippi, 
J/juismna,  and  Texas.  Rev.  Bishop  Thomson*  has 
charge  of  this  District,  and  made  a  tour  through  it 
in  December  last.  He  fnund  ,-.  goodly  number  of 
intelligent  colored  Local  Preachers,  and  also  excel- 
lent white-  Mis^ionnrk-.x  who  bad  been  transferred 
to  tho  work.  On  the  26th  of  December,  18G5,  in 
tho  city  of  New  Orleans,  he  organized  them  into  a 
Conference,  of  which  oar  engraving  on  page  132 


RACE  BETWEEN  THE  "ALGON- 
QUIN" AND  "WINOOSKI." 

there  was  a  trial  between  the  Winooski,  n  Govern- 
ment vessel,  and  the  Algonquin,  to  test  their  com- 
parative economy  in  the  consumption  of  coal.  They 
will  also  remember  that  in  this  trial  tho  latter  ves- 
sel, though  sho  managed  lor  several  houra  to  main- 
tain a  nearly  equal  competition  with  tho  Winwski, 
finally  broke  down,  being  unable  to  hear  the  severe 


of  the  two  vessels.     After  n 

the,  l:itb  of  February. 

The  raco  was  not  run  the  ei 

should  have  been  10-1"  mile-;   I 
furious  storm  on  the  ni^ht  of  t 


W.dlnWut  K,v, 
v.ngli  lliti-Hlate. 
i   Mocks,  oppo.ile- 


distance 

1 1'.'  pleiiiii 


f  miles  ahead.    The  t 


thirtv-livt*  pounds  on 
tho  boilers.     The  CI 

Going  about  twe 


o  of  steam  was  uniform 
;  rounds,  and  averaged 
gine  and  forty  pounds  on 
prion  of  coal  averaged 


pinmd<  per  bo 

.l.leiei.1    I'liVill.'f 


i  and  tlio  d:irl.ue>-  .-■ 


wben  the  signal   was  given  her  ti 

Faulkner's  Island,  shown  in  our 

miles  from  the  main  land.     It  is  om 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  wide,  with  a 

its  extreme  southern  end. 


Tin-  C.jrilereii.e 


preachers,  u  .-.■,). >iv.l 
4  districts;  2S  pastoral  charges,  most 
largo  cimi  it  •<;  -Jiliiilchurtb-mcmbers; 


MISSISSIPPI  MISSION  <  <  INFERENCE 
OF  THE  M.  E.  CHURCH. 

The  progress  of  tho  war  early  revealed  the  prob- 
ability of  the  emancipation  of  the  whole  colored 
population  of  the  South.  A  very  large  portion  of 
this  population  was  in  religious  oommunion  with 

til.:     Mat i"t      ll|. !■<.-. .|..il     (.'linn  li     South,         I'.m     ,i, 

tho  idea  and  hopes  of  liberty  took  possession  of 
their  minds,  they  naturally  inclined  to  renounce 

not  uiily  justified  their  bondage,  but  many  of  whom 
had  actually  held  them  in  slavery  and  profited  by 
their  unrequited  toil.  The  progress  of  our  arms 
brought  many  of  these  colored  people  within  our 
military  lines,  and  their  pastors  fled  from  them. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church  to  come  to  these  pco- 
"  e  pastoral  care  of  them.    In  order 


■  (■:,!:.  ,-i,      hito-  it-     "  ''oi  be  made  easily  i 
ye  mi".l,.meef  tlieumieip,]  ingredients,  can  1 


■•=■>- 1 . -.1 ,   iin.l    huM.ivl,   siv   cx tellet 

ulrernmiiliin--.    'Meiuty  l.ind  dl; 
»l-]>et \y. in-,      Tlii,  iMlie  recipe: 


lC,„l,]vrl,mi.lt(>l;l-!''    Tlii:.  will  plvc  n  v.iiiety,  und  they 


.   ,-.  -,,  .iNt...     T.  ) 


ken  ii]).  _  If  rightly  |. 

:iful  criep  brown  outside,  and  light 


nth.-  1ttli;-.n.l1.r.th..f  t 


.,  the  said  silk  lyln| 


o  speak  English,  was  tried 


.  pi--. li.-rei]  |,e,  PL-rvicea  03  interpreter 


e  spring  dresses  will  be  mac 


-will  he  made  »(f,\( 


i  paletots  to  match,  are  d 


r  rather  a  ahade  of  goldet 


in-  geiitTit) ;  they  f 


me  i-iLit-  of  Nov  l-'neluu.'.      Tli...ab-lL 
They  mny  he  leuile    |.hu,i   r.v    rich, 


II, ,]fe    |-i ill   ..f  mill:.     Three  i-;;--.     Table-  p.-onfnl 


BrrRyiTTT's  Oriental  Tooth-Wash  is  worth  i 
ther  dentifrices. 
Joseph  BrmxETT  &  Co.,  Boston,  Proprietors. 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 

HENEf  S.  FOOTE, 
Attorney  and  Counsellor  at  Law, 

117   BE0ADWA7, 
New  York. 


.  BASSETT'S  EXTRA  FINE 

GOLD    PENS. 


BI.NI   IS   Mil  I1AI:V   I.A1V- 
n  Military  Law. nd  tho 

n'.'r ,'(',■,  l\  .'..In,.'.'.'      1  ilM.'l  'l',i,  '., 


THE  DAYS 

BRASS  JEWELRY 
Are  Over. 

THE  COSMOPOLITAN- 
JEWELERS'  ASSOCIATION, 

Capital,  $2,500,000. 
Great  One-Price  Gold  Sale. 

Sell  no  Brass  or  so-called  Plated 

JEWELRY. 

WARRANT  ALL  JEWELRY  GOLD, 


Let  it  be  distinctly  understood  that  t! 
GOLD  SALE,  by  an  association  of  n 
ne-price  average  system,  and  that  not 


Instjeinq  Ten  Dollars  Worth  foe  $2. 

6y  Trrs  Pboof— We  guarantee  to  Bend  any  customs. 
in  exchange  for  the  least  article  they  may  get  for  $2, 
S2>kn<lid  richly  chased  or  engraved  silver  BtUter-Dish  o 
Castor,  fine  plate,  valued  at  $10,  or  a  beautiful  EO-jhi 
lure  viorocco  Photograph  Album,  valued  at  $6 ;  and  yo 


Fine  Gold  Watch  or  Piano. 

16"  cents  for  toe  Golden  Envelope,  contait 


Two  for  50  cents,  with  a  beaatiM  Photograph ;  5  for 
Silver  Napkin  Ring,  worth  $2 ;  17  for  $3,  with  a  Silver 


CALKINS  &  CO., 


rileRemeiM 


Coughs 


smoke  choked  her  i 


March  3,  1866.] 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


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;,,>  in  DrinkfoR-Ciip^ T  00  to  10  Ol 

...i  -iiivhI  aud  <  !.u-fl  Gold  Ur-iretcts 6  00  to  10  01 

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-j- lim.-r  Kuivcf.prrj.ilr    6  00  to  10  01 

t  ,  -uii.  it,"  i.i  »ll  tin'  f-in-ii!  article?,  stating  what  eacl 


l.v  m  .11  -ii  M.-i.L'i].t  .-i" .::-  ...■nt  ,;  f>  t'..r$t  i  cl.-v^u  lor  S 
f.ir  ;t-'» :  <-l,"'-.n>;  i'",i  i ■■>■  >i;>. 

;BArdrmj!VH!wfxsuV\v%"n.l  '  k'ii,.1  ,.1,/'.  v, 
(j:.-taiillhUed  18G0). 


Viaiv.iUuCii'l  \  w.irtli  Y  I--,:;".!",  (fill  l.r  |.l-|--.-:Ti(.r.-l  t 

100,000  Tickets  will  be  Sola. 


Watches,  $250  each  . 


1000  AGENTS  WANTED. 

MACKENZIE'S  TEN  THOUSAND  RECEIPTS  in  i 
the  u-ehii  art-,.     Ju-t  i.«ued,  after  two  years 


£&iKK 


.   I  LI.WiO.l,   ZF.I.L, 

<!d  a    ■ 


[Frooi  rot  Jon-.  J.  IT.  Poianri's  Autobiography,} 

THE  WHITE  PINE  COMPOUND. 

It  was  early  in  the  spring  of  1855  that  this  Conipoun 
wae  originated.      A  member  of  my  family  was  afflict* 

LI  tl      i  It  t       ..me  11     i  t!      lI  t  !l    I 

p'-'-i'-u  uM'.-ti,  luiviriL'  Ut  in  huir  the  inside  hark  of  whii 
pine,  might  be  so  com  |>. -.m!.  .1  us  t->  be  v.ry  n.-riitl  in  tl 

di.niiL'-  alluded  t..,  1  tv.mju. mid. ■.!  ii*dii>II  qnuiiHIy  ol  it 
M.-.1i.  int  tlmt  I  li:ifll.i.-..|i].|Mi1riitil.'. 1  paw  it  in  I.:.  .  -■]■■■...[ 

i.  ..■.■!.     ;■■'  i.ied,andu::jn;.'.] 


roll  known.      It  cur,-  ,..ie   iIipmi,  <  ,.n,.l>  ',  -lii-M  Il.-ivs, 

orally!'   'it  nui-emeriyfor'.iiabct.-,  1,1,. Mint;  H 
■,-v-      ,    I  I  I     I  I    r  1      I  I  I  [■.,-  ,    I  i 

GEO.  W.  SWETT,M.D.,PBWRiETr)R, 

i-'l  I.  SHAMS  .v    VAN  Si.HAAK.  f'liiu,:/.,,  II 
■J'JIIN   D.  l'AKK,  <  in.iiiNiili,  Ohio, 


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AMERICAN    MANUFACTURERS. 


REMOVAL. 


WINDOW    SHADES    AND 
CURTAIN  MATERIALS 


3.  &.  H.  T.  ANTHONY  &.  CO. 

Photographic  Materials,  Stereoscopic  Goods, 
WAR  VIEWS, 

SCENERY,  GROUPS,  &c. 

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.  v,    •    : 


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Superfluous  Hair  Removed 

From  all  parti  01  the  body  id  hv    m  t,   t  tl         o 

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Pimples  on  the  Face 

.TOD    at   Oscr.   by    the    Ubf.   or   "EPHAM' 

I.  BANISHIR."     Maiif.d  to  am   Aiooo..  ... 


EVERY  MAN  HIS  OWN  PRINTER. 

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PHARAOH'S    SERPENTS. 


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.liirliin.  -.     Three  new  kinds.     Urn 
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Five  Anatomical  Ener/iving?,  ivi.h  F.\-phri.itL.,!iJ. 
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Saturday,  Mahcb  10.  '8C6- 

THE  PRESIDENT  AND  CONGRESS. 
TT  is  n  mutter  of  the  gravest  regret  that  the 
1  rrcsi.lent  a..J  Congress  snotfld  differ  so  de- 


..fihcGo 

that    1,0.11 


nbsolnto  military 
adoi'ted  a  diffcr- 


Uibit  Wade  Hajip- 


r,  while  tile  unfor- 
pSomndr  indicated 

i  an  equally  unfortunate  want 
Pnisi.icnt  talked  freely  and 
lion  of  the  House ;  and  tho 
mity  enough  to  rebuke  Tiiad- 


tcd  the  Prcsiden 
issing  on  opinion 

lilliil'iItl.'llMl    I- 


:  grew 


i  .1   .  .      . 


c-i  hut.  in  hi.-  Win  Mi-i: 

gaged  in  ;m  untimely  CM" 

ot  general  policy.     The  Set 

The  Iliin-e,  stilus  with   ilijrtJiliiiiiiniK'i.l 

di-letit  nt  its  favorite  i 

tho  untimely  remarks  of  the  President,  neeil 

lessly  declared  that,  whatever  his  opinion  mjghi 

be,  no  rebel  State  should  resume  its  relations  it 

tho  Union  except  by  permission  of  Congress 

Again  Tiia 

usurpation  at  the  vory  morncm 

was  refusing  enormous  power, 

President's  opinion  could  ndini 

tiro  to  Congress,  and  then  foil 


li  tlii-  Inutility 
:ation  of  tho  Ui 


,\   )-.,|il:.'.:il   l 
.1,    will    .VI,  1 


louse  grounds, 
practical  rcorgan- 
lelaycd 


,  «.!l  i 


Congress  without  tho  oath  of  loyal- 
ty, and  transfer  tho  Government  to  the  pres- 
ent Opposition.  Now  Congress,  it  seems  to  us, 
for  reasons  which  must  ho  apparent  to  every 
thought ful  man,  must  take  the  iiii  .ative  in  re- 
turning to  co-operation 


;■'!  f.!ii|ii-li1i;t 
j.-t.  -    li-    ni,.|. 


:  y„Yu\  tot;illy 
is  persoimlity.  The  central 
:y  is,  that  a  change  of  feeling 


■■  iVlkiw-riti/.cns,  not  as  sub- 
leave  many  things  that  we 

f  indirect   methods.       Con- 
)ly  the  judge  when  the  un- 

m.     But  the  deci-ion  should 


'resident  though*-  the 
arly  passed,  and  that 
sufficient  for  the  end 


desired.  That  pro 
end  of  the  war;  b 
said,  until  a  procla 
eminent;  and  if,  a 
necessary  to  conti 
Congress  to  conti 
finned  our  view  tl; 


General  Howard  was  equally  tin 
ic  President's  meaning,  and  asked 
ntion.    The  Gcncrul  subsequently  i-sue» 
jr  to  the  agents  of  the  p'  .-sent  h.irenu  i 
egards  tlio 


yet  lull} 
jrtain  of 


least  p  year  f 


d  Senator  Wilson,  who  has  ui-eiy  maintiiiu- 
pleasant  relations  with  the  President,  has 
traduced  a  bill  extending  the  operations  of 
c  present  hill  for  two  years. 
We  nro  sincerely  glad  that  this  is  the  truth. 


the  Union,  and  his  notion  was  perfectly  intcll:- 

Thc  Conventions  having  mot,"  he  stated  cer- 
tain conditions  which  lie,  at  least,  deemed  es- 
sential precedents  to  a  resumption  of  tho  rela- 
tions of  the  States  to  the  Union.  These  were 
:mb<:aiiMu]lv  the  revocation  of  the  acts  of  Scccs- 


s-.rkipiuiun  A 
1  mil  rights 
i  n|  truly  Iny. 


guaranteed  an  equality  of  civil  right  before  the 
law,  although  in  otic  ■'  i1;'-  s>»  " h- <■■•■■,•.  m  ...  - 
it  has  been  held  by  a  Court  that  tho  overthrow 
of  Slovery  carries  with  it- all  legal  distinctions 
based  upon  color.  One  or  two  loyal  represent- 
atives were  also  elected  from  the  late  rebe 
State". 

This  was  the  condition  of  the  case  when  Con 
grcss  assembled.  The  point  to  decide  was  ex 
actly  that  Mated  by  the  President  in  his  late 
unfortunate  speech :  "When  those  who  re- 
belled comply  with  the  Constitution,  when  they 
'  loyalty,  when  they 


THE  FKEEDMEN'S  BUREAU. 
is  our  remarks  last  week  upon  tho  Veto 
ssage  we  assumed  from  the  President's  re- 
rks  that  he  proposed  to  leave  the  frccdmen 
the  care  of  the  S.tates  in  which  they  live. 
j  did  so  because  he  spoke  of  some  of  those 
Ltcs  as  in  his  opinion  entitled  to  resume  their 
rmal  relations  with  the  Union,  and  conse- 
2ntly  to  the  right  of  caring  for  nil  their  peo- 
.  lie  spoke  ot  the  present  Frcedmen's  Bu- 
rn as  stiil  existing ;  but  as  that  is  to  expire 
■car  after  the  end  of  tho  war,  and  ns  ho  told 

it  tho  present  arrangement  would  end  by  the 


ppre>cntcd,  and  might  en 
■  li--r.ti-licd  or  appeal  to 
plainly    intimated,  as  we 


s  to  the  particular  bill  presented  to  h 
ply  expressed  our  profound  sorrow  tl 
udgment,  tho  emancipated  slaves  on 
bandoned  homeless,  houseless,  hindl 


the  frecdniru  in  iWir  prc-cu:  condition  to  those 
who  lately  held  them  as  slaves  would  be  over- 
whelming. They  are  our  wards,  and  wo  have 
no  moral  right  to  relinquish  their  hands  until 
wo  leave  them  as  fully  secure  in  every  civil 
right  as  every  other  citizen.  Upon  this  point 
there  is  no  difference  of  opinion  among  Union 
men.  It  is  the  "  Democracy"  only  which  would 
abandon  them.  The  President,  in  his  conver- 
sation with  Governor  Cox,  of  Ohio,  speaks  of 
his  resolution  to  see  justice  done  with  a  dis- 
tinctness which  we  should  have  been  glad  to 
find  in  his  Message.  The  case  is  unprece- 
dented, and  we  must  treat  it  accordingly. 


MOMEY  MATTERS. 
The  Bull  speculators  in  gold  arc  having 
hard  time.  For  three  years  they  have  fougl: 
the  Government  with  vigor  and  success.  Bl 
their  glory  is  departing.  They  thought  i4 
quite  a  moderate  price  for  gold,  in  view  of  th 
$75o,ooo,ooo  of  currency  afloat;    and 


foreign  hou-es  v, 

e  changed.    Gold  is  m 
nnt,  and  holders  who  want  to  1 
in  business  aro  compelled  to  pay  full  7  percent. 
interest  for  the  uso  of  currency. 

It  need  hardly  he  observed  that  these  mer- 
chants had  a  perfect  right  (0  invest  their  cap- 
ital jn  gold.  In  one  point  of  view  the  opera- 
tion was  eminently  business-like  and  judicious. 
But  as  it  somehow  generally  happened  that 
men  who  had  thus  invested  their  capital  in 
gold  becumc  imbued  with  a  deep  distrust  of 
the  national  currency,  and  as  they  generally 
lost  no  occasion  of  expressing  that  distrust, 
spreading  it  through  society,  and  impressing  it 
upon  all  with  whom  they  came  into  contact, 
they  onmc,  rightly  or  wrongly,  to  be  rcgardod 
as  unfriendly  to  the  national  cause,  and  to  b« 
classed  among  the  sympathizers  with  the  re- 
bellion. That  injustice  was  herein  done  to 
many  holders  of  gold  is  quite  likely.  But,  in 
the    main,  tho  chances  are  that  the  popular 


v.Ll.h  ii  was  issued.  For  this  reason  there  is 
the  less  regret  felt  that  this  class  of  persons 
r.iMiiU  now  !tc  -u:i'eri:i^  1".  ■•>  in  consequence  of 
the  Government  sales  of  gold. 

Otthe  future  of  the  gob!  market  nothing  can 
I.-  said  except  that  t">Ul  nupht  to  steadily  de- 
elinc,  ..id  piub;ihly  will.  There  is  no  reason 
\>  In  .1  should  be  maintained  at  its  present  pre- 
mium. The  currency  has  reached  and  passed 
il:c  111  iMiir.nil  p-jiitt  ot  c\n:-.n-ion.  More  coin- 
„,  in  I  ]ej;::l  ■;.■.:  .<-;.-  arc  now  ).-i<M)lg  out  of  dr- 
i-nl:it:.uii  than  <TO\vi:iniciil  i>  ..-viing  of  imiion.d 
bank  note-.     In  the  course  of  a  few  weeks, 

est -bearing  legal  tenders,  there    will    not  bo 

::    liw  ly  deii.-ili-l    '■■!    e  money    at    1'ie    S«-uth    ii 


.  began- 


r;.|,is  ,<.. 


laughed 

a.t  the  Government  broker,  and  took,  day  aftci 
day,  all  he  had  to  sell.  It  was  not  till  he  re- 
turned to  the  charge  day  after  day,  and  week 
after  week,  each  time  seemingly  with  an  in- 
creased supply  of  gold  for  tale,  that  they  lost 

fled  in  dismay  from  tho  field.  The  premium 
dropped  to  t36J,  and  would  have  gone  : 


vclopcd  in  Congress  with  regard  to  the  Finan- 
cial Measure,  sometimes  called  the  Morrill  Bill. 
It  is  of  very  little  importance  whether  Congress 


In  days  gone  by 


point  tho  Govi 
supply  of  gold 


•lytlK. 


they  have  given  sufficient  evidence  of  loyalty.' 
Surely  Congress  was  cot  bound  to  take  tin 
President's   opinion    npon   these  points.      I 


Tho  extreme  q-;.-uuei.t.- 


-i  >,uuu,ooo  to     legid 


March  10,  ISfiti.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


su>t«  i«  mutniit/  and  Qbumaoc 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY, 


[Makch  10,  1866. 


JOHN  WILLIAM  DRAPER. 
'    Dr.  Draper,  whose  portrait  we  give  on  this 
page,  was  bom  near  Liverpool,  in  1811.     His  ac- 

advantage  that  could  be  obtained  from  public  and 

custom.  especially  directed  his  attention  to  classical 
and  miitliemiiti.il  'Indies,  in  both  of  which  ho  be- 
came very  proficient, 
Selecting  the  profess! 


the  United 
Chetniatiy, 


thorough 
Eurnpeiiii  liltiiiiteri-H.  His  inaugural  Thesis  lor 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine,  which  was  alto- 
gether experimental,  received  from  the  Faculty  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  the  unusual  distinc- 
tion of  lieino;  published  at  their  special  request. 

For  some  years  after  graduating  Dr.  Draper 
practiced  medicine  in  Virginia.  Ho  then  became 
connected  with  Hampden  Sidney  College  '"  *L 
State,  having 
,,i  (  li-iui  try 


Professor 
,nd  Natural  Philosophy.  In  1838  he 
tho  Professorship  of  Chemistry  in  the 


oluminou..     They 

■Biological,  botanical,  neologies].     His 

ngs  were  publtelrcd  ftfr  tho  roost  fart 


in  the  "American 

Hav's  Journal,  those  on  non-professional  subjects 

partly  in  Silliman's  Journal,  and  more  extensively 


tenrinh  republished  in  England.  Indeed  so  iden- 
tified is'Dr.  Draper  with  the  scientific  reputation 
of  our  city  all  over  Europe,  that  his  experiments 
and  memoirs  are  constantly  referred  to  as  those  of 
"Dr.  Draper  of  New  York,"  as  though  the  name 
contain  experimental 

probably  no  private  person 
xpended  more  money  in  a 

i,i  We  din  di.,n  than  Dr.  Dii.ircn.   Wbnt- 
andtluy  t  ■•''■  l'"U 


.patent  for  any  of  them, 
nor  sought  to  make  them  sources  of  personal  emol- 
ument. He  took  tho  first  photographic  portrait  ot 
the  human  face,  at  a  time  when  the  poss.b.ht}  « 
doing  so  was  universally  denied.  Had  he  sought 
to  secure  all  the  advantage  from  it,  he  mighty hat" 


Europe,  he  had  published 


Analysis 
ome' very  important  mo 
They  were,  however. 


,   ,     Thus  Trofe  .or  Ti 
,"  Redo  Lecture,"  list  y,0'.l" 
of  Cambridge,  .how.  th«  the»  OT*1 


'  ■■.':,   i.iii' 

Univfcnlty  of  Camterdge, 


Makch  10,  1866.] 


HAKPEE'S  WEEKLY. 


149 


nients  are  at  the  basis  of  the  modern  theory  of  the 
Radiation  of  Heat.  Professor  Youmans,  in  a  recent 
review  of  Dr.  Draper's  "Civil  Policy,"  mentions 
that  one  of  the  most  distinguished  scientific  gentle- 
men in  England  said  to  him,  "You  Americans  have 
a  very  remarkable  man  in  Dr.  Draper  ;  beyond  nil 
question  your  first  physicist.  He  is  a  most  original 
and  consummate  experimenter,  and  I  can  not  but 
regret  that  he  leaves  ihe  field  for  which  he  is  so  emi- 
nently fitted."  The  regret  was  but  natural  in  a 
passionate  lover  as  well  as  an  illustrious  cultivator 


contributed  probably  a 
].  Thoroughly  skilled  in  Anatomy,  there  is 
■celyoneof  the  animal  functions  which  he  lias 
made  the  subject  of  experimental  investigation. 
his  treatise  on  Physiology,  published  ei^ht  or 
:  years  ago,  it  may  l>u  fairly  affirmed  that  it  con- 


mucliof  his  lime- 
scientific  Mens  ha 

1     [>■;,  (>!,,[■: 


Me. Ileal  Depart- 


ilyofNYw  -> 

His  physiological  studii 
i  led  him  almost  necessni 
story.  His  "History  off 
ent  of  Europe"  and  "Tho 


ively  known  to  the  general  public  than  any  of  his 
former  physical,  mathematical,  or  medical  writings. 
In  these  books  is  recognized  at  once  the  same 
turn  of  thought  that  gave  such  celebrity  to  his 
Physiology.  He  belongs  to  the  party  of  Progress, 
the*  party  of  the  Future.  His  views  are  those  of 
the  school  which  insists  on  the  application  of  exact 
science  to  questions  of  Politics  and  HistoYy.  One  of 
the  recent  English  Reviews,  comparing  his  writings 
with  others  of  that  school,  says:    "In  part,  perhaps, 


more  predominancy  sck-utiite  than  Mr. 
The  latter  was  essentially  a  literary  man, 
tUn.  knevvb'Ll-e  ni..-a!v  ;ioc|uired  l,v  n.  lii 
Simply  an   accc^i.n  .       llut  with    Dr.   Dl 

"" '    Intellectual  i"  ' 

\  which  tends  to  shape  a 

wn   lilieue^s,      Hence  his  clear  perception 


hypothetical,  if  not  absolutely  chimerical,  to  a  mind 
cast  in  a  purely  literary  mould." 

His  last  work,  "Thoughts  on  the  Future  Civil 
Policy  of  America,"  has  attracted*  more  attention 
than  usually  falls  to  the  lot  of  such  books.  Origin- 
ally nothing  more  than  half  a  dozen  fugitive  lec- 
tures delivered  before  a  miscellaneous  audience, 
and,  as  its  title  of  "Thoughts"  indicates,  not  in- 
tended as  a  complete  or  systematic  production,  the 
ideas  it  conveys  on  matters  of  public  policy  have 
been  received  as  of  very  serious  import.  Whatever 
their  intrinsic  value  may  be,  it  is  undeniable  that 
uiadr  a.  v.rv  piv.i.iniul  impression 
'  "  '  in  his  "Historv  ot  the  Ai 
Civil  War,"  no 


ti.'n  in  Hie  ease  of  ..lie  I'mied  ::M  ue*  m.-re  ..-otu i .ii-lo- 

Dr.  Draper  spends  most  of  his  timo  not  de- 
voted to  professional  pursuits  in  retirement,  at  his 
country  seat  at  Hastings,  in  Westchester  Conutv. 
He  married  a  Brazilian  lady.  Of  his  tluve  *,„<. 
one  is  Professor  of  Physiology  in  tho  Free  Academy 
of  this  city  and  in  the  Medical  Colloge ;  another  is 
Adjunct  Professor  of  Chemistry  to  his  father  in  the 
University  ;  he  it  is  who  constructed  tho  great  re- 
flecting telescope— the  largest  in 
Observatory  at  Hastings;    the  thi' 


INSIDE. 

A  CHRONICLE  OF  SECESSION. 
By  George  F.  Harrington. 


.   CHAPTERS. 


CHAPTER  IX. 
And  so  we  return  at  the  point  from  which 
these  pages  set  forth— tho  fall  of  Fort  Donelson, 
and  all  the  boundless  astonishment  which  follow- 
ed it.  We  unmoored  our  bnrk  and  set  sail  under 
the  strong  wind  beginning  to  blow  at  that  date; 
mid  though  we  have  been  compelled  to  reef  sail, 
and  lie  by  for  the  lust  few  chapters  in  order  to 
get  our  ship's  company  thoroughly  acquainted 


placid  Mrs.  Sorcl  under  Colonel  Julius's  hos- 
pitable though  someu  ha;  leaky  rur.l.  In  Li.a, 
every  person  in  the  South— doubtless  in  the  North 
also— over  ten  years  of  age  is  eagerly  engaged  at 
this  instant  upon  this  same  theme.   Therein  Som- 

natural  i\  warm-hearted,  huge-limbed  Kentuck- 
iati  like  Guy  Brooks  should  feel  deeply  also. 


The    i 


deely  I 


mail  -.puke  In-;  muid  more  warmly 
lure  lii.h  \Yilhei>,  Sam  Peters,  Bl 
Colonel  Ret  Huberts,  Colonel  Juggins— ay,  even 
before  the  dread  Lamum  himself,  apt  to  put  it 
all  in  .savage  print  ten  minutes  after;  before  all 
tho  lawyer. 


die  streets,  in  his  own  olliee  \ 
l  his  table,  in  good  Mrs.  Ellis's 
vwhci'eelse.theKentuckiui 


ion  upon  whatever  the  topic  might 
uptions,  showing  I 


',  lawyer  has  altered 


In  every  city,  village,  and  neighborhood 
throughout  the  South  it  is  touching  to  sec  hoto 
the  Union  men  cling  to  each  other.  The  ship 
having  passed  completely  into  the  hands  of  mu- 
tineers, these  poor  disarmed  passengers  in  the 
cabin  below,  the  hatches  battened  down  upon 
them,  cluster  instinctively  together  for  comfort, 
speculating  with  each  under  their  1 


i  raging  a 


j  breakers  a 


.  the 


thor,  brother  against  t 
Secessionist,  while  to 


i  who  was  the 


i  plaj  h 


could  the  patient  part  of  poor  Dr!  Warner.     Yet 

it  uimiM  bi-  tolling  onlv  half  the  truth  here  if  we 
did  not  add  that,  where  friends  and  relatives 
did  hold  to  their  country  nlikc,  the  ties  between 
' ie;r-ui-;ihlv  si  rengi  beiied  iberehy; 


friend    li.vin,. 


father  loving  t 

rother,  wife  valuing  husband  just  so 
ore  ns  they  thought  alike,  felt  alike 
thought  and  feeling  had  their  intcr- 


'1    frankly    cunfess,"    said     lid  ward    Arthur, 
n    before^  "every  thing  is  altogether  unlike 


pecinlly    ils'darkcr    side— whieli    is    ail    uve 
blo.l   iho  lawyer.       "Vnii  preach  lohil  depn 


Kel    Muborls, 


line,  the  whole  programme  had 
ranged  by  Lnimim  nnd  Colonel 
e  Colonel  nt  the  very  time  sol- 


mi  held  by  i  hem  in  um  (.'uiirt-huuse  here, 

>rpornl's  gnnnl  uf  the  people  there;    tho 

t>  adopted  culling  v  " 


mgs  engl- 
And  this 


PRESIDENT  JOHNSON  ADDRESSING  HIS  FELLOW-CITIZENS   AT  WASHINGTON,  Febroar*   22, 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Maiich  10,  1m;;;. 


ii  10      "I  had  ni'  i-lca  I 
rum     as  to  those  fires, 


«Ih«lft1l0ll»llt»l 

tva.  being  then  made, 

Union  men  through. 
i  nly  come  into  tfie. 

"We  would  hare  i 

till-,  v,  ti.rncil  it  upon 


the  South,"  said  Mr 

Anli.ir.  I   necliv'-lv/ 

"tc»j  nn.l  nom 

m.Tc  ,l..|.„.iti...i  ilia.,  I  to 

fir-.  II  TO  a  feelini 

sn.l.l.ii  ..ml  universal.     I 

1   ,.  n    ■-.  Mj    An:. 

All,  that  terrible 

ciplc!   G,,»B,o.,ks 

■■  l:l    >■■■ ,tug!:iii,:gl....iii. 

finger?,  his  bread,  1 

r,,\M.  f  ,ic  no  l,.n  :or  open, 

but  full  of  such  a.. 

pose,  wlten  fading  o 

,.l  jirirxij.le  arc  al  strife  fur 

He  SAid   nothing 

but  he  thought,  thought! 

And  mollitttdcj  at 

a  syllable  of  their 

wife. 

If  his  disjointed  thoughts  could  bare  been 

v  ii::.n  ilown  they  it 

,.f  il,c  Sniitli— S h.ri.f, 

Democratic  right  o 

lcS2?     Humph!     Th-  old 

General  would  not 

h..>e  act.n.%  fought  Cnro- 

-'>■:«,  liEi.iiiie  f..r  it.  vrrr 

ml     Yc-;    anl   Ihc   I/uiicd 

States  Government 

e«i,.n  ..,  il, i.  , ■„...?'  Th.n 

Sec  -io..  legitimat 

r.cl  a;  th.-  N..nl,.  1.,,.,,  \vw 

in  the  Sonth  orer 

and  over  again.     Il„n.il.  ■ 

Uiiircrsa.     disintegration,    dissolution,    death! 

Wrong  to  fight  ftgn 

And  on  and  on— 

nillions  at  the  South  on  the 

same  track  that  ins 

ant  .Tit':,  him— |.|o.|(ln|  r,,n 

f  :l,-  world   i-  infid 


'■       I  ■    '■     '■!      ■'   ■■  I  il>      «i-i\    find    goad. 

..I  cro  ~c«.  .Servants  of  tlio  World. 


?  closing  of 


wickedness  1 
of  fi..l' ('"'.! 


1  l.v  fl.isVrv  pmc-ss. 

MVhnt  da  y'.-n  mean'-"   tic  asked. 

'1  fenr  we  are  going  to  have  trouble  in  om 

irch — great,  trouble,"  .'-■lid  his  l'i  i-nd. 


a.  "Do 

■villa  but 

1 1'        to  ^fl£Bj^ffifl|H 

"I  t-A^   m>t    hi'l|i   lint,"  replied   [lie   ininiMcr. 
"I  have  the  deepest  and  clearest  convictions  on 

my  life,  been  accustomed  to  express  myself  frank- 


1-V,",|"in' 

call  ing, 

oxeln-ively 

It  cl« ■«.---=■ 

Mippr.--!.' 

mons  and  my  pntyc 
there  is  a  person  in 

to  my  friends  in  c 


.Vhicll     I 


"You    would    have    possessed    supernatural 

had,"  continued  his   fvi    ml,    "ymir   vi.tv  silence 

plan....]  iiyjiiii  it.       Ilnu-  cmld  you  I,-  nleiil,  pen- 
]■':■   wnald   have   said,   amidst    the  universal   en- 


t  what  have  I  done  fo  impnil  flic  ePun  !i  ■'" 
m  do  not  pray  bathe  Confederacy." 


lie.     What  is  more,  I  i 


!.■  friend-,  drawn  now  ncfirei 

before. 

dug  I  hardly  need  say,"  add- 


niv  la<l  i 

Ferguson,  too — tint  l  am  a>nnnie«i  even   to  : 

pose  yon  do  not  know  all  this  without  being  t 

With  the  door  locked,  the  curtains  down 
the  raging  madness  shut  out,  Edward  Art 
sank  upini  his  knees  before  One  nearer  to 


Mrs.  Bowles  was  not  in  her  manner  and  l< 

the  Mrs.  Howies  of  other  days.     And  Alice,  l 

"But  I  can   not  help  it!"  groaned  Ediv 

ArthUn  :====       ' 

THE  DEAR  PRESIDENT. 


d.M       wll 


There  came  the  c 
There  came  t 
Through  the  dark  April  i 
And,  blessing  it,  in  silene 
And  one,  a  poet,  spnke  w 


0  awful   teiuka-ncs« 


praise  him  dead. 


'I  perfect ly  agree  with  you;  I  heartily  r 


AFTER  THE  BALL. 
(i      p-wn  sleeps  i>-  ma  fatiieb'8  b 
Papa.    "Why,  how's    thU,   It-yinaM?     K-t  in    Bed   yet  ?  - 
io;iM    htiTB   been   n-l    ■]>    i  lours   ago!" 
liEGtSALD.  "Haw!     And  pray,  why  me  in  particular,  Papa; 


Foor  o'clock!    Ytm 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  10,  1866. 


March  10,  1866.] 


HAEPER'S  "WEEKLY. 


UK    II  \l  I. OK    ('!■    l;lo. 


VISIT  OF  DON  PEDRO  TO  TIIB 
"MONADNOCK." 

^  A  letter  from  Rio  Janeiro  of  January  9  thus 
describes  a  visit  made  to  the  United  States  iron- 
clad steamer  Monadnock  by  Don  Pkdbo,  the  Bra- 
zilian Emperor : 

"On  the  Linivnl  of  the  imperial  party  the  vessela  of 


Tin-  list'  nnciiiiitcit  from  a  spark  fron 
stark  of  the  Getty  Well. 

The  Bceno  of  tlio  conflagration  was  in  the  very 
heartof  tho  oil  regions,  being  a  short  distance  nortli 

of  the  Hjdo  and  Egbert  F ..„  v.1.,.  l,  ,-.  .,i.i:1.  -i 

the  Muple  Shade  Wiills  ami  tin?  Coquette  and  Jersey 
Wells,  which  were  at  onotime  in  cri-ul  ihnnjer  from 
the  burning  oil  running  down  Oil  Creek. 

Tho  progress  of  tho  firo  wns  stayed  nt  Well  No. 

29,  partly  because  this  well  was  not  yet  in  opcm- 

'  partly  from  tho  persistency  with 


I  Win  Miioking,  and  thus  origina- 
ls the  tanks  bmat  the  liquid 

\L'-\ul-\  .)""r.  "  III1  hi5f 


W.  Goodwin.] 


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[March  10,  18GG. 


OT1RISSY  iir\Tix. 


night  a  nearer  pliir 


liculnr  fuucv  lor  Cin 


nip.  The  green  miM.1..w»  were 
,■.,.«  wa*  dripping,  the  flowers  do 
I  the  river  red  ami  dnimlv.     All  i 


.  p-.rlur.     Hut  Mr.  Spi.tiiv«{,(„k-  K:i 
•,..,..      ■ri.c-iinprr.-ivf:..-i0f«l!i«-e, 


though  he  sat  next  Cor, 
elf  glancing  curiously 


:  the  book  Cbrissy 
ng  her  face  rending 
2  in.      Mrs.  Spottis- 


After  a  little,  however,  s-he  p  it 
ictic  humor  and  pathos  into  t lie 
ve,  till  j-hv  litrr.illv  held  her  list- 
I.     And  no  wonder.     Those  weve 


heart.  She  was  no  I 
knew  thiit  Domhopc  d 
Mrs.  Spottiswoodc  an( 


■  r,  tlin. -:'li  Ihe  l'IIi  like  hrr  f< .;-r u i 

>  her  for  many  a  long  day.     Chri 
'  Bourhope  were  ind-  pendent  and 

>  like  her— to  love  her— he  was 


lint  Mill  Cliri.«sx 


prcstdy  selected  ns  n  ci 
during  the  gayeties  of  tin 
a  sort  of  harmless  foil. 
t;rand  shock  to  Chnss; 


Uourhope  should  excite  p 


solved,  show in« 
propori  ioned, 


■well  as  a  loving,  fairly- 

.1  I....  1\   human  spirit. 

pd  nil  her  M.her  ;•'  n^cs.     She  recol- 


Uabch  1.0. l-"fifi.] 


H  UPPER'S  WEEKLY. 


ball,  except  in  a  single  incident  t 
rl,1>  !"^  -  Mitl.'ilen  of  the  old  v.-nir 


V.I   1,'h      V,ll    t.-l.T.l.l;     wi    e 

.,-,,.  In- for.'  tln-v  (Mil   nni: 
,l.,.,mngthe  nan,-.       Hc 


jn-t  then,      lie 
■  .lid  not  r-ully 


1   in   l.,v   wilh    n    lilt!*'  enliee -colored  girl,  one  o 
'"rli.i'n  ttiDorh-r.'     lb- was  no'  on'np  lk-d  to  mai 


!-•  would  look  about  a  little  longer,  enjoy  himself 

little  more.  At  the  word  enjoyment  Dnurhope 
topped  short,  as  if  lie  had  caught  himself  tripping. 
f  Chrissy  Hunter  «as  ugly,  Blto  was  an  ugly  fairy. 


artppendent  laird  if  he  wei 
o  h;id  ever  thought  to  be. 


filly  imjiairctl.     The 


ri!-l;    .1  cisive  word,  and  ol'gctti 


Others  boids  Bourhnpfe  had  determine]  or 
making  the  hall  a  theatre  or  explanations.  Mrs. 
Spattiswoodc  was  not  pleased  with  the  aspect  ot 
tilings  a*  between   Bourliope  and   Corrie.      Thcii 


■  Ire  idy,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  d;>  handed,  and 

"■<>ks.  Com"  wa-  ovidenilv  not  contented.  She 
van  listless  and  a  little  peevish,  unless  when  in  the 
'nipany  of  other  v  omen   than    ISonrbop-— a  rare 


father  on  a  public  occasion.  His  eo„d  ;ct  w 
J1'"  !.-■  marked  and  .  nn^pioLioits,  and  ercn 
Spottiswoodo's  and  Corrio's  eyes  would  be  or. 


i  it.     Then,  again,  he  wo-dd  h  ivc  an  opportunity   [ 
■contrasting  her  personally  with  all  the  girls  about 


exultation  ami  ridiculo  e 


A  strange  tlioie  lit  moi-  .-\ 
hons.  and  so  hill  and  stnk  lit 
Chrissy  wa«  cruel  enough  toe 


blunder  had  been  to 

the  chai'-e,  instead  of  Corrie,  at  "fairing  from  their 
own  door.     He  repeated  tho  unaccountable  blunder 

still  gazing  in  bewilderment  and  admiration  at  the 
evergreens,  and  chalked  floors,  and  laughing  coup- 
les, Mrs.  Spottiswoadc  could  scarcely  believe  her 
oar*,  when  she  distinctly  heard  Honrhope  ask  Chris- 


Now  Mr>.  Spottiswoode  had  no  doubt  that  "Hour- 
hope  would  solicit  her  sister  Corrie  for  this  dance, 
and  there  lore  she  had  peremptorily  forbidden  Corrie 
to  engage  herself  in  any 


Corrie   had  dem-irred   at:  th 
thought  Chrissy  would  I 


tlje  evening,      "That  must  bo  it,"  Mrs.  Spot  lis- 

wnode  said  to  herself,  and  was  eon-oletl  by  Corrie'? 
hand  being  immediately  reqnested  for  tho  Colonel'; 


.piile  '■■ml.  Mnt  Ik-  looked  engrn-s  d  and 
If  it  h:.  '  b.-'en  any  olh-r  girl  thin  Chrissy 
.ttiswoi.de  would  have  c.lUl  it  a  llirtalion, 
.■  linn  a  llirtalion.  <  hri^v  looked  well  in 
bv  die-s,  almo-t  pretty,  indeed,  in  the  new 
ere.       Mrs,  Spottiswoodo    vi  ns    aggrieved, 


i  wheels  of  caleulatiou  and  resource.  She  glanced 
t  Corrie,  who  was  dancing  very  complacently  with 
ic  Colonel's  nephew,  and  exchanging  passing  words 


Mrs.  Spotti-woode  gave  a  sigh  of  relief.     Failure 
The  dance  bring  nvr,  lioinlmpo  sat  down  hesid  • 


Mr-.  Spot'i-wnode's  were  at- 

i-ir  obse- nations  of  the  pr -occupied,  unconscious 
) n pie    trite  coolly,  and  then  specula;ed  and  gos- 

ftirs.  Snf'  ,3woode  read  these  comments  as  well 
<  wha'  ..art  gone  before,  and  wns  readv  with  her 
r      ntnimih.      It  was  thu  i  '  *  ' 


She   tin-ned    v^^:>]   and  h  mm!  : 


ellowmlle,  Mi-sIIa 


s  smnelhing  when  n 


Balquin." 

The  public  of  Prim  ton  did  not  know  whether  n 
to  admire  Mrs.  Spottiswondc's  diplomacy  or  i 
rare  instance  of  poetic  justice. 


HOME  AND  FOREIGN  (lOKSir. 


>  duy.    True,  th-  glitter 


owimfri8teni'<i  by  "Tragedy 


,  April  m,il,|  1,  ■  nier.'    tVkle  llir-n  lei"  Fi-liinmy  1, 


!;,;■;":■:■:, 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY 


[March  10, 


I    FREDEIKA  BREMEK. 

I     Ik  presenting  our  readers  with  the 
accompanying  portrait  of  Fjiri.mKA 


pie  oftliis«-omitry  the  career  of  Mi>« 
Bremer    is    especially     interesting 
from   the  fact  that   she  has  lived 
anion"  «"    ">»<'  is  ""  "  u"  remembered 

It  is 

tlioii-:inils  til  I'.vim;:  fni-inl.-*. 
HOW   about   »   (jiiartir    nl    u 
<j1M-c  Hie   M'i'"lk'rl    ]'>'1,l'L,|f'r 
aits    of  I.eii>,ie,    intn.dmed 

en  tin-  iail.lic  heart.     Nobody  cri 

,-isc(Hl)ei»,ii"lj^lV(|iK'5tioneilwh.- 

did  was  to  read  them,  to  laugh  uc 

■cry  over  them,  and  to  feel  nslomsl 

how  pictures  so  simple   eon  Id   ex 

drawn  Ma  chfcro  Mere.     Now  tl 

the  onco  so  greatly  admired  milli 

•ess  lias  passed    from  earthly  cxi 

uhvsical  frame  ami  in  any  tiling 

OPESING  OF  PARLIAHENT-THE  LORD  CHANCELLOR  READING  THE  ROYAL  SPEECH  IN  THE_  HOUSE  OF  L0RDS.-[Sek  Page  158.] 


March  10,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


.      fer 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Makcu  10,  1866. 


TWICE  FIVE  AND  TWICE  TEN.     '  "'  l't ;;",'' '',.', 


censiog  to  play, 
oearly  every  (toy.' 


pun  t  ymi  Know  I 


,„,.  l,o'«  coininK- 
iat  pretty  pitik  t 


.      ii  ■ Ill     ; 


1  after  uovolty  I 


WASHINGTON"*  |:|I,-||>I'\Y. 


;.:.  v-.-..  ;is  il-  BiL'n.itiil  by  i lii.'  pvr.-tichuists,  inc 
illuws:  Tho  Indian  Pulnio-to.  Gnhkn  CirtU-um) 
i  i  mi  IhiUury,  Persian  Rusr,  Cross  oi  Peru,  Yew- 
,  Tribu-o  lo  Ceres,  Zania  Peru  via,  Saturu  nnd 

S;iD'lliU-8,  Star  of  Amu. ion,  Slnr  of  liiclep-nJ- 


Tbe  .-.irin-.  i 


"CAiJGHT  NAPPING.' 


PARIS  FASHIONS  FOR  FEBRUARY. 


Lick  ostrich  feather,  anit  having  a  kind  of  diadem 
i  front  ornamental  with  small  black  cameos. 
RguM  2  is  a  hall-dress  of  siraw-c  -Inr  Mitin,  over 


caught  up  by  yellow  roses.     The  train  of  tho  robo 

is  scolloped.     The  coiffure  is  composed  of  a  branch 

of  yellow  roses,  winch  descends  as  low  as  the  waist. 

No  8  is  an  evening  dress  of  ponts  de  foie,  striped 


6,  whic 

,■  I  n.h   | 


tin,  is  bordered— as  well 
of  tlierouc— uirti  velvt-t 
A:  tho  extreme  end  of  the  robe  is  a 
jyanto  bleu. 
The,  "coiffure  Joerphinc"  is  composed  of  a  ehi- 
non  of  small  cuils,  covered  w itli  a  utt,  and  fastened 
n  by  a  large  gold  comb.     A  diadem,  also  of  gold, 

On  tho  same  page  with  our  Fashion  cut  we  give 
?vtral  engravings  illustiating  specimens  of  ladies' 
'ool  work,  to  each  ot  which  wo  bl.all  make  separate 

V3CDEAU  GREi 
This  I 


i  cla*tic  cord. 


I  ■],;>(■:.  nub  br.'j'l  ImikI-  of  fur.     The  wholi 
h  .i  tith  :i|<j  liiution  of  l-lat  k  "-nun.  niibn.id 


J.  H.  Wiuslow  &  Co. 


.H°"**  EAcn 


SPLENDID  LIST  OF  1 


capable  of  being  divided  1 


'J  he  nsu  f-r  wlmh   ih:-  yitiile   if  de-i.-ii'i! 
lie  strength  of  the  material  to  be  .mployed. 


LArjcnATii.E. — All  tho  world  and  his  wife  seem 
to  be  inhaling  the  laughing  gas,  and  ha'  ing  their 
teeth  c strait' <l.  at  (lie  1/ui.K'N  !)■  mai.  Asm'c.a- 
tkw,  19  Cooper  Institute.  The  danger  is  that,  Dr. 
Coltox  having  destroyed  tho  pain,  people  will 
.aciillie  Hi'  ir  uv  h  «  hen  tln-y  should  >b\:-  th<  in. 
L-j  *-- *ural  tooth  is  worth  a  dozen  artificial  ones. 


Woitcomc's  Rcmkdy  for  AsTtistA  is  a  sure 
cure.  Ex- Preside nt  Martix  Van  Bores  was  re- 
lieved fmm  distressing  paroxysms  by  its  habitual 
use.     It  is  not  injurious. 

Josiiru  Buhsett  &  Co.,  Boston,  Proprietors. 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 

HENRY  S.  FOOTE, 
Attorney  and  Counsellor  at  Law, 

117   BROADWAY, 
New  York. 


G  Ol  D 

"pens. 

otlol  Geld  Pens  used. 
aotumb. -.'M  Broadway,  N.Y. 

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.  hi    l.i  P..::i  '1 
"l>.  Publisher"  10 J 

CO\U   shoo-.-'       ■    i      ■   . 
i:.il  <y  ivreipt  nf  price. 

riMemem 


JMumfs 


&  H.  T.  ANTHONY  &  CO., 

611  BKOADWAY  (rft.  Nich-li*  Block). 

Phut,  graphic  MatorialB,  Stereoscopic  Goods, 

WAR  VIEWS, 


TH^  DAYS 

BRASS  JS3WBLRT 
Are  Over. 

THE  COSMOPOLITAN 

JEWELERS'  ASSOCIATION, 

Capital,  42,500,000. 
Great  Onc-Fricc  Gold  Sale. 

Sell  no  Brass  or  socallcd  Plated 

JEWELRY. 

warra  ;t  all  jewelry  gold, 

OS  NO  SOLE. 

Let  It  be  dl<t,-rt',y  „:i,:<  r:'.. 
a  GOLU  SALE,  by  on  as.ocia 
oncprico  average  system,  and  tbut  not  a  single  article  of 

250,000 

Pinnw,  Gold  nnd  Silver  Watches,  Diamond  Rings,  S«tf 
of  ticU  Silverware,  Fine  Gold  Jewelry, 


Worth  $2,500,000, 

All  to  bo  sold  for  two  dollars  each,  an  nvernge  price 

nc-fifih  the  ueunl  cost,  nod  not  to  he  paid  for  until  y 

now  what  you  will  receive. 

IJ.MHMKO  Tew  DoLL.u»a  WoBxn  fob  $9. 

t*~  Trm  rwwi-Wo  guarantee  to  eeod  ony  oustome 

•lend.il  richly  chased  or  engraved  silver  DtUUr.Diuh 

<8to>\  fate  plate,  valued  at  $10,  or  a  betuti/ul  10-pt 

ire  morocco  Photograph  Album,  valued  at  $6 ;  and  y 

eve  a  posdbilUy  of  getting  a 

Fine  Gold  Watch  or  Piano. 


sirffii'l  "I  ('■"■■  ■'■■  I..-,,  ill.  ];oii:i 
with  tho  envelopes. 
CALKINS  &  CO.,  Managers, 


J-J)  lOUW      ,,l..i     r,  .  M     .,,    iM!-n„vi-i.  $.'0  seeing 


Makch  10,  18G6.] 


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£A  §^7  Tho  si-  ad  roicgrrapa 

LlvJby,!    l,.,sl\UMv\,Al,  i.,l..>n     Uu^!,': 


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Hostetter's  Stomach  Bittera 


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GRFAT  AMERICAN  PRIZE  CONCERT. 


NEW  MUSIC. 


Srandreth's  Pills, 

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$1000       REWARD.       $1000. 
a:  odor,  odor.  a. 


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Better    to    be    Born 
Lucky  than  Rich. 


The  Children  all  are  Singing 

ll.'.7„"f'i"',;.",'-'p'i,.M  »,;/",.'^,Vi'?,;.';,'''.'i,:,,m'.''  "-'J,:  '■ 


Carriages— Every  Variety.  i,  ■,■. 


SON'T  BE  FOOLISH. 

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LADIES'  LETTER. 

Db.  KliWLER,  Brooklyn  P.O.,  N.  V 


HALF  A  Ml!  LION  I 


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CORNEA  RESTOFEHS,  or  RESTORERS  of  the  EYESIGHT. 

They  will  Re-'.....  Inn!  f.|    is'it.ft-i.l  Pre'orre  it  to  ilie  I.nte-t  1'ei  lod  of  Lire. 
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[Mabch  10,  1866. 


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GOVERNMENT  SECURITIES, 
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I  KIDNEYS,  IMIFU- 


CHINA    AND    GLASSWARE: 

DAVIS  COLLAMORE  &  CO., 
Fonr  Doors  below  Broome  Street, 


Calenberg  &  VaupeS's 

AGRAFFE-PIANOS, 


Dr.  Footc's  Advertisements. 


cnori-^//..!.'  >' 


■t.    Tlic    I-MRitlvea    of  tho               pen. 

Mount  nine.  :W.  Till.'  I7;. tM   \imk  Diiui. 

>>.  Tliv  T.m'l;  ,■!"  Fir.\  ■         Hil  V  .-^.■-1;  y. -!/-■  k.-. 

f.  Chiu-l.-tt.-  -r.,iujilV--  3v  TIh-  H.tWl  <.-:-l]i  Hunter. 

s  -n,<.  n,-Hth.F,K-,..  :t.>.  The  Tovy  S|.y. 

'.I.  'II,.-  hi.l ->Uy-v.  -I".  ['[■r,irie,l«kl-.i 

LLTI,..  T.,ly  iiulv.HitM.  -l-l  'lli.'  <.r.,,-.v  "I  ,.M.ii.t. 


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AKM-*  a-.p  AMMfVirjMN  or  ALL  KINDS, 


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VEgSfeM 


Vol.  X.— No.  481.] 


SNU1TIXG  THiS   CANCLE  FOB  SBANBPA. 


[March  17, 


March  17, 1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


3  with  water  a  fire  which  s 


Behind  the  front  and  rear  walls  a  i 
about  n  foot  back  extend  from  ce 
On  these  are  nailed  laths,  and  i 


v.'.n-k  i.f  in=ido  shutters 

nd  a  deep  b 

se.     The 

open  space,  about  a  foo 

deep,  forms 

a  perfect 

draft  or  clumncv  of  w 

hicli  lath 

ore  nailed  are  inferior  ir 

joist,  but  there  is  nevertheless  an  open  spaco 

extending  also  from  cellar  to  garre 

lictwecn 

ito  which 

inducted. 

tliu-  extending  the  draf 

or  clmnncv 

inder  67- 

ery  portion  of  the  floor.     In  nddil 

ersally  built 

of  wood, 

n  case  of  fire 

ofaweU 

protected  open  space  b 

tween  the  t 

calls  and 

risers  and  the  lath  and  plas 

constitutes  the  finish  at 

the  lurk  ..f 

the  stair- 

way.     Although  many 

unices  have 

en  inside 

wall  along  the  main  hull,  yet  more 

;Vncrnllv 

this  and  all  other 
made  of  joists  resting  on  beams  or  on  each  oth- 
er, covered  on  each  side  with  lath  and  plaster^ 
and  constituting  a  further  means  of  conducting 
the  fire  rapidly  to  each  floor  and  to  the  roof 
of  the  building.  The  wonder  is  not  so  much 
that  such  structures  are  completely  gutted— 
Such  is  the  well  known  phra-, — but  Hint  thev 
are  ever  saved  from  this  result  if  fire  ensue. 

The  interior  ornamentation  of  Dr.  Tyrol's 
elegant  church  consisted  mainly  of  lath  and 
plaster  from  floor  to  roof,  constructed  on  an 
.nihility  of  wood  formed  to  rcprcsein  solid 
work,  but  as  ready  lor  the  flame-  a-  any  thin- 
which  ingenuity  could  devise.  This  huih'lin.L; 
and  the  Assembly  Rooms,  in  open  .lay.  defied 
the  skill  and  unrentlfted  exorhon-  of  rii/emon. 
We  can  scarcely  expect  that  the  care  and  ex- 
pense devoted  by  pagans  to  the  Pantheon  for 
the  safety  of  their  house  of  worship,  or  by  the 
Catholics  in  the  time  of  Mirim.,,  Axoklo  in 
the  construction  of  St.  Peter's,  will  lie,  display- 


i  to  dett 


that  a  very  slight 
ingwill  prevent  such  complete  destruction,  and 
that  without  much  expense  beyond  what  is  usu- 
ally borne. 

In  lieu  of  the  system  of  joists  and  lath  and 
plaster  in  the  front  and  rear  of  ordinary  houses 
it  would  cost  but  little  more  to  construct  a  brick 
wall  separated  a  few  iuches  from  the  front  and 
"  ;o  receive  the  plaster,  and  to  have 
;  the  wood-work  of  inside  shutters 


rear  wall, 


The  plaster  would  of  course  be  perfectly  dry. 
Houses  in  the  interior  of  blocks  would  by  this 
simple  precaution  be  much  more  safe,  solid, 
warm,  and  durable  than  are  the  usual  struc- 
tures, and  there  would  be  no  loss  of  room.  The 
outside  and  inside  wall  would  not  need  to  be 

or  copper  sloping  downward  from  the  internal 
to  the  external  wall  would  convey  any  drip 
from  the  latter  away  from  the  interior,  if  a  tie 
were  supposed  necessary,  which  we  are  sure  it 
is  not.     "We  have  closed  the  open  space  be- 
tween these  walls  at  the  place  where  the  work 
for  shutters  is  affixed  by  a  strip  of  tin,  to  ex- 
clude vermin  from  this  retreat,  which,  when 
joists  are  used,  constitutes  the  place  in  which 
they  are  secure  from  attack,  and  where  they 
safely  breed— rats,  mice,  and  cockroaches, 
in  addition  to  this,  the  interior  walls  were 
brick  and  the  main  hall  were  of  solid  materi 
with  a  metal  or  stone  stair-case  rising  to  t 
second  floor,  such  houses  could  be  iuhabit 
with  safety  from  fire,  aud  with  the  certainty, 

be  necessary  to  prevei 


the  external  \ 
staircase  to  gi 
of  fire.  Such 
able  occupant! 
out  a  fire  whi 


ssnninee  of  safety  won: 
ake  means  themselves  to  put 
ould  generally  be  done  with 


The  interior  of  churches  must  be  constructed 
on  a  plan  wholly  different  from  that  which  pre- 
vails, or  their  pastors  must  share  in  the  anguish 
of  the  venerable  Dr.  Tyng,  who,  at  a  period  of 
his  life  when  he  most  required  a  secure  roof  for 
the  worsliip  in  which  he  delights  to  engage,  fin 
that  his  efforts  to  this  end  have  been  complet 
ly  frustrated  by  the  sacrifice  made  to  appear- 
ances in  the  church  which  his  congregate 
erected.    Grand'  arches  made  of  the  flimsy  ro 
terial  generally  used  must  be  dispensed  with 
we  wish  to  make  certain  provision  against  tl 
carelessness  of  a  workman  handling  fire.    Caen 
stone,  such  as  we  import 
an  elegant  finish  for  the  i 
but  an  interior  wall  of  brick,  constituting  with 
the  exterior  a  double  wa 


maybe  used  with  advuuta-.  . 


.stered  s 


Iu  forming  the  interior  arches  galvanized  i 
y  be  used  with  benefit  and  pressed  into  wl 
■r  shape  may  he  required. 


du.stry  in  the  shape  of  houses  to  its  suc- 
cessors, as  a  substantial  contribution  to  the 
1  of  the  country.  A  Commission  ap- 
pointed by  the  Legislature  to  examine  expert; 

legislation  at  the  next  session. 


FOREIGN  PROSPECTS. 

0    aiAXJMILI 

capacity   ol 


The  Austrian  Archd 
remains  in  Mexico  in  1 
Emperor  of  that  count: 
leon  has  not  yet  begun  to  embark  his  troops 
for  France.  -Marshal  Foret  declares  in  the 
French  Chambers  that 1;  the  great  idea"  of  the 
Mexican  expedition  can  not  be  fulfilled  with- 
iut  more  French  soldiers,  and  a  minister  of 
Napoleon's  rises  hastily  and  says  that  the 
Marshal  speaks  for  himself  as  the  Emperor  has 
Iready  spoken  for  himself.  Meanwhile  the 
Juarez  Government  of  Mexico  is  both  nomadic 
nd  shadowy,  and — to  use  a  droll  expression 
if  the  prize-ring  or  the  bar,  we  forget  which — 
eldom  puts  in  an  appearance.     This  country 


ing  an  eye  up 

at  the  Captain  Boboi 

peremptorily  ord 

ing  in  London, 


>  Navoi.kon,  ami  -inlliiu.' 


an  accomplished  t. 
that  Lord  Palmi 


the    United    Staffs    in    the 


■  Doctrine,  three 
1  a  native  popnlut 
i  path.     IfEngla 


an  Alabama  settlement  or 
Mexico,  she  sees  her  own  : 
stretched  over  a  large  pari  o 
and  a  debt  which  she  can  n 
We  believe,  therefore,  that 
will  be  peaceably  adjusted  ; 
sure  they  would  be  adjusted 


ilitari    Ini 


.ill   .1,- 


thev   hear   I 
ed    Ma 


alh    ,ic 


piY-tiii'i.    ■■ 


t  not  he  surprised  if  the  remarkable 
;th  which  the  event  of  the  war  in- 
j  diminished  in  the  eyes  of  the  world 
by  our  political  discords.  If  the  Union  party  had 
moved  steadily  and  unitedly  forward  to  the  full 
reorganization  of  the  Government  the  amaze- 
ment and  admiration  of  other  nations  would 
have  been  indescribable,  and  the  triumph  of 


lint  iIk-j   v 


after  the  v 

by  us,  and  our  doubting  critic 

that  the  same  intelligent  persi 

ished  the  war  will  establish  pe. 

member  that  he  was  signally  ' 

culations  of  the  rebellion,  and 

so  in  his  theories  of  the  practi. 

ment.    The  force  of  our  systei 

as  much  by  its  capacity  to  bear  undisturbed  the 


PUBLIC  HEALTH. 


nd  been  eleven  hundred  deaths  from  cholera 
l  Guadeloupe.  Tho  pestilence  had  decreased 
lere,  but  had  appeared  at    Dominic:'  ; 


appear  among  us.  Meanwhil 
Board  of  Health  has  been  create 
organized  and  at  work.  We  t 
work  may  be  relentlessly  thoroi 


«■!  I  Ik-  Inuhlmg,  with  -m.,11  bcdiomus  lietw 
one  to  each  main  room.  Thus  in  a  six-> 
building  there  are  usualh  twenty-nun*  I'ami 
eaeli  averaging  five  members  and  ofton  n 
as  there  aro  gonorally  other  lodgers.     ] 

leet  of  ground  area,  and  1st)  cubic  feet  . 
space  in  tho  whole  hon-c.  In  tho  main  r 
the  air  space  is  317  cubic  feet,  and  in  tho 
mitories  80  feet  to  each  person.  This  is  stated 
by  the  careful  sanitary  report  of  tho  Citi 
Association  as  the  average,  but  ofton 
crowding  far  exceeds  this.  Light  and  ai 
xcludcd.     Garbago  and  slops  of  < 


nd  are   thrown  into  i 
mosphcro  of  tho  wholo  rogio 
ivies  are  filthy  beyond  doscriptio 


The  work  before  I 


ught  them  up@u6. 


Pacific  Ituilmnd  Sevens  ;,re  an  equally 

-  pretty  certain  that  the  liailroad  Cum- 


TA1UNG  CAUE  OF  THE  HEALTH. 

Tiii.i:!'  is  an  abundance  of  painstaking  on  tho 


•ly    in    I ' ily   taken   a.  a   aide, 


efficient  use.    The  responsibility  of  tho  n'< 
Bonrd  is  very  great.     The  City  and  tho  Stn 
will  require  rich  results  from  them ;  hut  whs 
ever  a  Health  Bonrd  can  do  tor  a  city  like  Now 
York  we  are  very  confident  tins  Board  wil"  ' 


,V  COITElillUAl)  HISS. 


ii.  Chicago  7Yiii... 
ons  "Democratic' 
suggests  that  it  is 


a-  «ith  I 
little 


I  I.,  King '.r  r.Mi.1.-, 
hat  the  Chicago  Timm  urges  ll 
o.     He  went  to  tho  Houso  of 

jnscquence  of  this  violent  n-s 


body  else  undertake  the  work.  The  rebel  shot 
upon  the  field  and  the  tortures  inflicted  at  An 
dersonville  were  constitutional  resistance  to  cc 
ercion,  thinks  the  Chicago  Times;  but  the  ex 

minister  the  Government  it  holds  to  he  "Nortl 
emrebellioii."  Wogreatlyraisundorstand  fre 
ident  JorrNSON  if  he  docs  not  entirely  agre 
with  General  Grant's  expressed  opinion,  tin 
such  a  paper  as  tho  Chicago  7Ywes  is  one  o 
the  chief  hindrances  ul  peaceful  reorganizatio 
of  the  Onion. 


GOOD  PJVESTMEXTS 
time  when  the  juice  of  all  k 


Fish  i    IIaii'ii 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  17,  1866. 


v. 


March  17, 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


INSIDE. 

A  CHEONICLB  OF  SECESSION. 
By  George  F.  Harrington. 

IN  TWENTY-FOUR  CHAPTERS. 


tcrnoon,  a  few  weeks  after 
Arthur,  seated  in  his  little 
room  there  in  Mrs.  Bowles's  front  yard,  hears 

the  front  gate  open  and  shut,  and  sees  through 
Ins  window  Mr.  Neelv  walking  toward  the  house. 
In  that  one  glance  he  sees  that  Mr.  Neely  is 
carefully  dressed  in  lii-  very  bc-i  ;  sues  nil  that 
Mr.  Neely  has  come  for;  knows  almost  every 
syllal.lL-  of  all  Hint  Mr.  Neely  is  going  to  say; 
sees  and  knows  all  this  with  a  sudden  glow  which 
tingles  him  from  head  to  heel— a  glow  followed 

cuse  the  young  minister,  the  fact  being  that  ho 
has  lain  wide  awake  all  the  previous  night  on 
acomntof  the  hells. 

On  account  of  the  hells !  At  nine  o'clock  ex- 
actly the  night  before,  Bill  Perkins,  the  stage- 
driver,  had  driven  up  to  the  door  of  the  hotel. 
Long  before  he  could  rein  in  his  horses  a  dozen 
voices  from  the  crowd,  which  now  awaits  his  ev- 
ery arrival  in  the  ample  porch  of  the  hotel,  hails 
him— "Anynews,  Bill?     What's  the  news?" 

Bill  Perkins  is  aware  of  his  importance,  and 
is  silent  and  even  dignified  accordingly.     No 


waiting  families.     Men  who  live  in  the  couuti 

their  horses,  tied  hard  by,  and  gallop  off  at  th 
risk  of  their  necks  through  the  darkness  to  te 
the  news  at  home,  then  to  gallop  hack  again  f. 
their  papers.  Lamum  only  stops  to  say,  "Th 
bells,  boys,  the  bells!"  Every  bell  in  Somci 
ville!"  and  is  in  the  Post-office  and  his  hand  i 
the  mail-bag  almost  before  the  Postmaster  ca 
unlock  and  draw  out  the  chain  through  the  iro 
loops  thereof. 

It  is  a  little  strango  about  Dr.  Peel.  Up  t 
the  arrival  of  the  stage  he  had  been  one  of  th 
foremost,  and  certainly  the  loudest,  of  the  crowd 
at  the  hotel  awaiting  the  stage.  No  man  so  con- 
fident as  he  that,  "Mark  my  word,  gentlemen, 


3cy  is  not  correct.  But  Dr.  Peel  lias  made 
i  similar  prophecy  similarly  emphasised  befuie' 
n  fact,  he  never  ceases  from  prophecies  to  tin 
-ame  effect  all  day  lung  and  all  over  Somcrville 
;o  that  people  have  come  to  attach  not  so  much 


',   .ii,nih]    Kill    Perkins  when    1I,||  i-.-.-t 
Nol'.nly  iee..  him  when  Hill  has  U-1 

'    '  i  great  news.    They 
illoi 


:ie  large  lamp  hanging  i 
no  of  the  pillars  of  the  ] 
Nobody  notices  him  in 


front  of  the  hotel  f 


Muideiily  shrunken   from    his   bmly 


ong,  however.     Ten 


i  of  which  BillPer- 
the  fact  that  they 


.  lighted  torch.     During 
or  so,  each  driver  ca  the 

a  tore"' 
the  great  and  glor 
■  as  he  drives  alonf 
.remaps  it  is  on  account  or  its  being  transmitted 
so  far,  and  from  hand  to  hand  so  often,  that  the 
torch  blazes  larger  and  brighter  for  every  mile  it 
is  borne  over,  as  with  the  very  rapidity  of  its 

"The  news!  What  is  the  news?"  says  Bill 
Perkins,  at  last,  very  slowly,  and  with  consid- 
erable irritation  in  his  manner.  "Ask  me  if 
there's  any  news!  I  guess  there  is  news  1"  And 
Jim  Perkins  is  thereupon  silent,  enjoying  the  dc- 

erville  behind  it,  upon  his  single  tongue.    Here 

greatly  enjoys  it.  The  moment  his  news  is  spoken 
he  vanishes  from  public  attention,  and  he  knows 
it. 

"I  tell  you  what  it  is,  you  Jake,"  he  says  to 
the  negro  hostler,  amidst  the  breathless  atten- 
tion of  the  crowd,  "you'd  better  have  them. 
horses  a  little  cleaner  when  I  cpmo  to  leave  to- 
morrow than  they  were  last  time ;  better  had, 
°r  I'll  Jake  you  till  your  very  wool  '11  come  out 
"'  curl  !  No,  they  ain't  any  passengers.  What 
" "'■  you  unbuckling  them  straps  for?     Think  I 

g?     Gent 

I  rather  to„„_ 

battle  at  Corinth  !     Glorious  victory  !     Yankees 

^'hipped  all  to  smash  !  Reaiti-egar-l's  taken  pris- 
""  i>  all  he  ha-n'i  kill,,!,  !m-  t],.u-s  nf,v  t[10u- 
lions,  gun-ho:iN.  brigades,  All  kep- 


tured!    Sydney  Join 

Jo  be  a  lie.     But  get  out  o'  th 

V'^-t  drive  to  the  Post-office, 
,lU  Hi*  mail  is  open  and 
.    And   having   ke,-nh    c 
'mportance,  Bill  ]?erkin; 


Can't  von  wait 


'His  of  yells!     Feo- 


dinh  thai    went   that    nighi. 
of  every  grocery 
bells  scattering 
the  country  for  rt 

All  nigh);  Lamum  is  busy  in  his  office  readiug 
the  papers,  writing  editorials,  answering  ques- 
tions to  the  crowd  pouring  through  it  like  a 
thoroughfare,  all  flushed  and  noisy  but  he.  With 
stooped  shoulders,  face  beaked  like  a  kite,  and 
thin,  sharp  voice,  he  is  the  acknowledged  intel- 
lect and  oracle  of  the  horn*,  ruling  by  his  very 
paleness,  confidence,  and  coolness.  There  is  a 
"asperity  even  in    ' 

did  not' 


ig  Bob  Withers  v 
itlcmen !"  cxclaii 


P.ol..M.ll 


more  loudly, 

blinking    gravely    wUl,    owlish    eyes    upon    tho 

crowil    ' 'that  '•*  what  /want,  by  George!" 

^reputable  in.livj.lnal  j.  n  trai- 

says  Captain  Simmons,  slowlv 


.    an   Al-li- 


and  solemnly;  "a  Ya 

carefully  instructed  never  to  fight  "never  even "t 
associato  with  drunken  squabbler*.     This  , ■„„ 


by  the  crowd  tYoui  indicting  merited  chastise- 
But  Colonel  Ret  Roberts  is  at  this  juncture 
dragged  out  of  Lamum 's  office,  after  having  been 
called  for  in  vain  for  the  last  three  hours.  ]},-. 
Peel  has  opened  a  ha-ket  of  Champagne,  and 
Colonel  Ret  Roberts  is  v.tv  drunk  by  this  time 
though  Dr.  Peel  and  Lamum  are'  not.  But 
zealous  friends  stand  close  around  tho  hogshead 
upon  which  tho  Senator  totters  to  catch  him 
when  he  falls. 
Oh,  divine  gift  of  eloquence  1— given  not  to 


ba".c<t  nt  purposes.  People  have  heard  Colonel 
Ret  Roberts  before;  no  wonder,  as  the  news 
Spreads  that  ho  is  speaking,  all  groups  break  up 
from  hotel,  grocery,  bonfire,  street  corner,  and 
hurry  toward  tho  spot.  In  a  little  while  hun- 
dreds of  excited  \\\ct:*  -how  ;n  011  ml  liim  rliio-.ijji 
the  half  light,  half  shadow  of  torch  aud  bonfiro 
as  he  Bpeaks.  The  frantic  applause  as  ho  stead- 
ics  himself  to  begin  drowns  oven  tho  sounds  of 


:  brought 


I'.. I. .nil  Ret 


bccan.c  he  tbeiehv  vrr.itilies  himself.  ] 
:|;  1  ""-illy  and  a-  „cc  - -:u  ilv  .,s  „  rj 
:i>  water.  01  a-  .1  mocking-bird  Miigs. 

And  how  thoy  applaud  1     Men  stand  there 

on  m      ""''  i"'""'1"''1     '"    '        '  ■''      wl"    ■    ,|:  'J 

Rabat*  Mihbtl 
oncl  Juggins  has  ridden  i..  „, 
moned  through  the  nigh,  and  the  mud  by  tho 
bells  and  the  cannon.  H0w  cordially  be  agree9 
m  the  speaker  s  bitter  descriptions  of  tho  Aboli- 
tionists, not  even  dissenting  at  tho  exciting  in- 
statu  to  the  horrible  oaths  with  which  it  is  neo- 
Colonol   Juggins  with    his   plants 


-"aiming  will,  , 


l"t  II  Is  ],>.[  ,|l:1,  .,,,..,1,,.,  ,|,  ir 
"'llll  h  >"-  like,  have  secured 
■ip'Uioi,  ol   every  negro  he   ow 

Clark-ori,     Iitinlc.lt,     Ilcecher 


of  the 

li.loie  him 


..th 


culminates  his  denunciation  of  tho  Federal  army 
ns  '*•»*  '■ I«wl  «'f  "base  mechanics I"  Sta- 
ple-, the  hotel  keeper,  has  left  his  hotel  to  tako 
care  ot  itscll  while  be  cm.  bear  Roberts.  How 
ho  exults  in  tho  demoralization  of  the  North, 
its  speedy  bankruptcy  and  ruin,  ns  prophesied 
by  tho  spcakor;   so  ignorant  that,  of  his  three 


and  trundle-bed,  won- 
dering and  crying.  All  night  neighbors  are  hur- 
rying into  each  other's  houses  to  talk  it  all  over; 

like  a 
in  the  centre  of  a  lake, 
the  waves  roll  and  spread  until  they 
all  the  country  around  miles  away. 
been  a  slight  misunderstanding  between  Captaii 
r"    mons  and  Bob  Withers  at  a  grocery,  ho 
What  I  say  is,  by  George,  I  want  to 
news  confirmed  iii-t!      Suppose  it  sh 
v,v,  by  George  r    i,    what   lid,  Withe 


you  mustn't  say  that ;  yotl  oughtn' 
Captain  Simmons   has  remarked,   as  drunk 
Withers,  but  only  the  stiffer  in  attitude,  and 
more  quarrelsome  on  " 
"Confirmed,  gentli 


.  by  George,  confirmed?'  hiccups  Bob  With- 
rcgardles-;  of  the  Captain. 

Any  man,  Midi  a  giori.ais  night  as  this,  who 
news,  sih'h  news,  i>  a  trai- 


being  a  gee-  : ■_■  l : ■  = . - 1  iu  ;ie.  .  ■:■:■.  ■  i 
oftheword.  Were  not  his  parents  highly 
ctable  people,  members  of  the  church,  spe- 


ally  careful 
Captain  never  dresses 


descends.      The  drunker  Cap- 
only  that  much  higher  he  as- 
cends.    When  sober,  which  is  becoming  a  very 


iniscences  of  parents,  and 
Bible-class,  and 

flic  Legislature,  and  all  his  past  respect: 
in   general,  become  more 
at  his  deepest  possi 

it  the  Captain  is  in  hearing   and  lan- 
guage tho  very  Chesterfield  of  Somcrville.     He 


HAEPEE'S  WEEKLY. 


[Makch  17,  1866. 


light ;  "and  he] 

l,i,|.  :il«-»ys  are 
i-.,n  l..liim-i-lf,  I 


approaching  stage.     He  disbelieved 
lotrad  its  nnnounccment.    Truth  is,  1 


to  each  other  oppos. 
plank,  like  ch,  dron 


rt  up  goes  the  Scotch- 
t.    To-night  Somer- 


ii.!i^u:iiii  .ill  I  In-  linn-  at  1 


I.C.I      I" 

l,cr  night-cn,.,  the 

Doctor    1 

and  enduring  in 

the  wholo  Fedora 

defeat    ■.!' 

There  wore  other 

of  I  ho  L'i 

!  thoir  papers,  and 

ionic— gathering  t 

nils  and  the  iqior 

tors  found.    It  is 

I'rclly  1 

mazing,  tliey  shoul 

other  m-xt.  day  of  the  people 
they    themselVcs   um:    far, 


In  Somerville,   us  l 

iero  existed  what  1111 
no-third.     That  is,  o 


de'ri'ledlv  of  Ihe'comiclion  lh>tt   the  South. was 
wrong,  and  had  nothing  but  evil  to  expect  in 


;  sik'Ii  times  as  these, 


the  universal  smiling  uml  band-sliaking,  gladly 
lust  among  the  crowd.  When  thrown  in  private 
with  his  Union  friend  thu  waverer  has  nothing 


'  Mrs.  Bowk-,  h 
a]  and  greatly -i 


enced.    perhaps  cowardly,    the 


di.-iMr-.llnv,]..'. 


loud  ''Oh,  thank  God!  thank  God!"  mingled 
with  even  weeping.  Had  it  been  in  regard  to 
any  thing  else  in  the  world  he  would  have  been 
with  them,  and  one  with  them. 

But  as  it  is?  A  great  gulf  yawns  between 
him  and  the  rejoicing  town ;  between  him  and 
the  very  family  in  which  lie  lives  heretofore  ono 


nd  then    the   vuiv"   -I  Aliei 


i rings 


lag.      There   is   another 

h,.„  Alin:  plays  moo   slov.ly,  ■•ings  more 

ii  is  n  Psalm  ibis  lime— Ih'    1 ■  imIi 

Pduaol  Arthur  well  Knows  wh\  :  ii  wan 
u  sung,  he  ha- oHe, i  heard  Mi  .  Ih.wl-, 
,:■  M;,i,,r.  lather's  family  l>y  the  whole 
d,    white    and    black,  after    (he    news  ol 


t  him 


evei  y  thing,  go 
on  the  glorious 

nd/'lV 

i:  v.  hole  ,|t 


nu  prejudices  « 

of  which  he  i 
,ng  as  he  live-, 
■ver  sought  div 


Binks  upon  his  knees,  and  goes 
whole  subject  in  the  language 
prayer.     How  ardently  he  desin 


■S h  .Iwigive  with  Inm  hci 

il  so  many  pious  Christian-,  h 


,n,.l    l.elim:    . 
s  to  believe  S 

ml  before  Goi 


cached  in   its   favor,   have   entered   into  it.   as 
e  verv  cause  of  right  and  truth  and  God  him- 
self?   They  are  more  learned,  more  holy  than 
-  '—  to  him  Seces- 

lii    lieu    night. 


uWcnU  drugged  imun  lodeoits  dream,' 
iiuself,"  as  it  Were,  alone  iu  this  sain 
uni,  all  the  world  changed  as  m  an  in 


lis,  the  meinber  and  pillar  of  his 
ias  u  friendship  for  Guy  Brooks, 
■  has  not  the  deep  and  devotional 


the  negro  Charles 
papers.     He  hears 

er.-ing    eagerly    to- 
eturn.     He    hears 


has  with  Mr.  Ellis,  dee],  into  the  night,  there  b; 
his  study  fire,  or  here  in  his  chamber,  upon  doe 
triues  precious  alike  to  them  both,  unveiling  l< 
him  in  Christian  friendship,  the  closest  and  sweet 
est  of  all  on  earth,  the  deepest  experiences  of  hi 
soul.  He  has  often  knelt  with  Guy  Brooks  ii 
prayer  in  private;  but  it  was  Mr.  Ellis  whose  de 
voiional  spirit  rose  with  his  own  in  agonies  .. 
entreaty,  in  the  very  wrestlings  of  living  fait! 
for   the  common  cause  of  their  hearts.     Wa 

which  Mr.  Ellis  had  not  given?  Blameless  i 
life,  prudent  in  speech,  sincere  in  soul,  libers 

of  his  means  to  the  hist  cent,  above  all  devoted 
ly  pious,  Mr.  Ellis  had  been  the  man  of  all  me 

"You  know  I  was  a  Union  man  to  the  ver 

last,"  his  friend  had  said  to  him  only  yesterday 


You  have  not  a  v.  .inner  friend  in 
the  world  than  I  am,"  adds  good  Mr.  Ellis,  tak- 
ing his  pastor  by  the  hand,  the  tears  standing  in 
bis  eyes  as  he  speaks ;  "from  my  soul  I  admire 
and  love  you — am  your  sincere  friend.     Don't 


1  "JZ\, 


As  if,  deep  down  under  all,  Mr.  Ellis,  and  ev- 
ery other  Christian  at  the  South  was  not  think- 
ing, in  various  stages  of  advance,  exactly  the 

Yet  it  was  strange,  too.  Long  after  war  had 
been  begun  Mr.  Ellis  had  little  to  say  upon  the 
subject.  Week  after  week  had  the  pnstor,  Guy 
Brooks,  Mr.  Ferguson,  and  Mr.  Ellis,  besides 
other  church-members,  met  for  prayer.  On  ev- 
ery one  of  these  occasions  Mr.  Ellis  had  led  in 
prayer,  had  prayed  for  peace,  had  prayed  that 
God's  will  might  be  done,  but  had  never  once 
j, rayed   distinctly  for 


of  its  fees. 

1   himself,   could  perceive   a  chn 

iu     Ins 

ug  to  the  war.     '"It  was  like  cat 

iug    Henry 

often  repeated  to  his  pastor.    But,  at 
did  go.     Henceforth  Mr.  Ellis  was 


toward  it;  to  feast  upon  the  papers,  believing 
all  they  said  of  success  to  the  Confederate  arms  ; 
to  seek  and  join  eagerly  in  all  meetings  and 
street  conversations;  m  a  word,  to  outdo  many 
even  of  the  most  violent  "  from-the-start  Seces- 
sionists." 

As  the  voting  minister  knelt  there  iu  bis  room, 
with  the  bells  pealing  in  his  ears,  he  well  knew 
that  no  man  iu  Somerville  was  rejoicing  aiore 
than  Mr.  Ellis  in  the  news.  "We  must  cease 
looking  hack,  cease  reasoning  upon  the  matter," 
Mr.  Ellis  had   ,ohl  him  yesterday,  "and  must 

hearty  feelings,  as  citizens  of  a  nation  invaded 
by  a  brutal  foe." 

"But  was  not  Secession  a  wrong  thing?"  Mr. 
Arthur  had  asked. 

"Well,  yes,  in  a  certain  sense  it  was,"  Mr. 
Ellis  had  replied. 

"And  is  not  this  a  war,  on  the  part  of  the 
North,  but  an  energetic  attempt  to  put  down  a 
wrong  thing?  Is  it  not,  this  war,  a  desperate 
attempt  on  the  part  of  the  South  to  establish 
this  wrong  thing?  Can  you  hope  for  the  bless- 
ing of  God,  Mr^Ellis,  on  any  effort  to  establish 
you   deliberately    pray    to 


re  morbid  fancy,  Mr.  Arthu 


feS 


iny  feeling,-   have    u.udergol 


Fight?  yes,  it 

South  to  fight.    I  have  s. 

Sir,"  continued  Mr.  Ellis 


Mi.  Arthur  had  ik-ki  been  calmei  in  I 
han  when  he  replied,  rising  as  he  spoke: 
Cllis,  we  once  thought  and  felr  exactly  a 


is  of  God.      A  Wrong  is  eternal 

a  flight   is  eternally  a  Eight. 

for  i he  Wrong  and  again-t  the 

the  De\il  and  against  his  God. 

arm  wither  from  its  socket  before  I  strike  a  blov, 

for  the  one  and  against  the  other!" 

Only  Secession  the  Wrong?  No  vague,  uude 
lined,  "instinctive  apprehension  of  a  deeper,  moii 
desperately  wrong  thing  than  that,  under  that, 
out  of  which,  as  from  a  giant  and  deadly  root 
Recession  h,id  naturally  sprung? 

Yes,  Edward  Arthur— the  bells  pealing  hi  his 
cars— went  over  the  whole  subject  which  be  h    ' 
often  di 


dig   rlie   v,\.;iii    !n<- nil,     p:,-i. 
p:!--ed  into  the  bauds  of  tin: 

.i  Mr.  1  Mi-  drawn  into  it  m. 


Has  i 


i  pu-irinii  i 


easy  remedy  for  any   dissensio 
1      And  what  is  my  country,  ni 
permanency    in    such 


-Slavery— still  exist?    With  such  a  line 

of  fronii'T,  with  -itch  hostility  n»  Slavery  North, 
such  jealousies  and  rivalries,  could  a  peace 

n/  !    Old,  and  stale,  and  hackneyed  ren^n' 
these,  now;   but  to   Edward  Arthur  that 

night    they    were  Hying   things  with' which  he 

It  is  as  one  exhausted  with  long  conflict  that, 
i  this  afternoon  after  the  night  of  bells,  Ed- 
ard  Arthur  sees  Mi-.  Neely  enter  the  house  of 
rs.  Bowles,  on  a  little  visit  to  the  mother,  and 
pecially  to  the  daughter. 
Just  a  word  or  two  in  regard  to  Mr.  Neely 
hile  he  waits  on  the  front  porch  for  Charles  to 
lswer  his  knock.     A  tall  man  is  Mr.  Neely, 
ith  fair  hair  and  florid  face.     When  he  first 
ime    South   Mr.    Neely    had   always    replied, 
Kentucky,"  when  asked  where  he  was  from. 
ecause  having  made  an  extensive  tour  of  that 
tale  before  settling  in  Somerville,  he  was  from 
entucky.    Bnt  his  fair  and  rosy  face  was  against 
iui ;  he  had  always  to  acknowledge,  at  last,  that 
inmeful  and  painful  fact  of  having  been  origin- 
ly  from  New  Hampshire ;  in  fact,  hard  to  say, 
born  there."     If  Mr.  Neely's  body  was  in  per- 
petual motion— hands,  eyes,  feet,  tongue— it  was 
ly  because  it  was  an  instrument  thoroughly 
adapted  to  his  active  and  restless  mind.     , 
"  te  definite  purpose  Mr.  Neely  had  in  life — • 
cceed.     That  is,  to  obtain  as  much  position 
property  as  he  could,  in  which  he  is  very  far 
from  being  singular.      Starting  from  New  En- 
gland  with  just  one  hundred  dollars  in  gold,  a 
good  suit  of  clothes,    an  old-fashioned  watch, 
belonging  to  his   father  and   his  father's 

,  a  pleosant  person,  a  ready  wit,  he  had 

gone  into  the  Book  Agency  Business  because  it 
"ie  first  thing  that  turned  up.      But  it  had 

and  now  he  is  teaching  in  Somerville  as  a 
means  of  support—  glorious  Daniel  Webster  be- 
fore him  in  that— while  he  masters  enough  legal 
wledge  to  obtain  a  license.  Mr.  Neely  is  not 
inprincipled  man ;  Mr.  Neely  would  not  do 
-Imne-i  deed  for  the  world— an  undoubted- 
imdetiiably  dishonest  deed,  you  know— hut 
Neely,  all  this  apart,  is  resolved  to  suc- 


erville,  and  never  again  does  that  expression 
pass  his  lips.  It  is  part  of  his  creed  that  though 
there  are  such  quadrupeds  as  cows,  the  universe 
owns  nothing  answering  to  the  name  of  keows. 
Well  does  Mr.  Neely  know  that  the  calling  any. 
one  to  an  account  for  a  thing  is  vastly  better  ex- 
pressed by  the  phrase  "calling  him  to  dew  for  it," 
but  he  would  prefer  death  to  such  language.  Mr. 
Neely  often  speaks  of  "throwing  a  rock,"  but  of 

in  the  Bible.  Cheerfully  does  Mr.  Neely  inter- 
mango  -'evening"  for  -'night,"  and  as  freely  does 
he  give  up  "  chores"  for  "jobs ;"  and  so  of  all  forms 
of  speech  unadapted  to  his  new  meridian.  There 
now  lingers  not  even  the  knowledge  of  one  in 
his  mind.    It  is  rather  the  custom  of  Somerville 


o°s  to  Mr.  Neely. 
Mr.  Neely;  butit\ 


after  ascertaining  v, 


—and  of  that  church's  choir 
inent  member;  but  as  to  introdui 
alluding  to  any  of  the  tunes  so  familiar  in  New 
Hampshire  and  in  the  old  church  there,  and  so 
unknown  in  Somerville— why,  Mr.  Neely  has 
long  since  ceased  even  to  whistle  them  to  him- 
self, on  principle.  "Identify  myself  with  the 
South"  is  Mr.  Neely's  one,  plain  path ;  and  the 
only  question  on  any  and  every  poini.  with  him, 
great  and  small,  is  simply,  which  is  the  North- 
ern, which  the  Southern  side  of  this  matter? 
and  magnetized  by  this.  Mr.  Neeley  repels  the 
Northern  and  clings  to  the  Southern  Pole  of  the 
question  by  a  second  nature  which  has  become  an 

In  a  word,  Somerville  contains  many  hundred 
Southern-born  individuals,  but  Mr.  Neely  is  the 
most  intensely  Southern  person  there.  That  is, 
in  comparison  with  the  born  Southerners,  we 
mean.     There  are  a  plenty  of  other  men  there 


orth,  as  Southern  i 


Lett 


!  times  for  f 
ture  analysis  and  inference  by  whosoever  choos 

to  undertake   the   task.      Among  the  people, 
the  army,  iu  political  office,  in  the  pulpit,  on  t 

Northern-born  men  are  the  most  intensely  Soul 
era  Southerners  there.      Pugnacious   and  se 


ne  one  in  which  I 
mber  how  he  coi 

this  defeated  cm 


Confederacy  toward 
permanency  in  such  a  loosely-bound  nation  for 
the  building  of  railways— the  founding  of  great 
institutions  ?  What  hope  for  the  peaceful  spread 
of  civilization  and  the  Gospel  in  a  region  perpet- 
ually in  danger,  at  least,  of  crumbling  to  frag- 
ments?   Shall  I  desire  and  pray  that  the  South 


was  defeated.     We  all  i 
soled  himself  on  awakii 


who  furnished  niv  imaginary  opponeni  Willi  •".', 
the  arguments  with  which  he  defeated  nie. 
The  North  may  flatter  itself  or  bewail  itself  on 
the  fact  as  it  please,  but,  in  a  goodly  measure, 
the  desperation  of  Southern  resistance  was  owi«k 
to  muskets  and  pens  in  Northern  hands  nude. 
the  flag  of  the  Confederacy,  New  England  wit 
and  New  England  resolve  where  raged  the  bai- 
"I  was  horn  in  Columbia,  South  Carolina, 
Sir,"  Dr.  Peel  had  one  day  replied  to  Mr.  ««*■ 
lv.  Dr.  Peel  was  a  dark,  superb-looking  man, 
almost  dueal  iu  dress  and  bearing,  and  the  ttord* 
were  spoken  with  his  black  eye  full  upon  W- 


March  17,  1866.] 


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167 


Neelv,  and  in  tones,  to  Mr.  Neely's  ear,  so  dis- 
tinct" and  regal !  "lama  prince  of  the  blood, 
Sir,"  would  scarce  have  sounded  nobler.  Ah, 
how  mean  New  Hampshire,  and  how  plebeian 
Mi".  Neely  to  hiniselfJn  comparison! 

By  no  one  was  Mrs.  Bowles  congratulated, 
that*  day  after  the  bells,  in  her  parlor,  more  cord- 
ially Elian  by  Mr.  Neely.  No  one  had  a  bright- 
er smile  or  a  more  hearty  grasp  of  the  hand  on 

Neely  it  was  that  he  was  too  glad,  too  fervent* 


learned— to  be  still.     Nut  that  Southerners  are 

quiet  withal ;  and  this  Mr.  Neely  could  not  bo. 

"A  most  wonderful  victory,   Madam,"  said 
Mr.  Neely,  rubbing   hi-   hands;    "the  complete 

dispatch,  Beauregard  remarked  on  the  spot  that 
it  was  a  more  complete  thing  than  Manassas 
even.     I  rejoice  sincerely  in  it." 

And  no   doubt   Mr.  Neely  did.     He  opened 

er  had  he  failed  since  Sect: 


the  South,  and  for 
of  our  cruel  and 
had  got  into  the 


of  the  glorious  and  successful  revolution  in  which 

boys  a  holiday  after  the  good  news  of  last  night, 
he  would  certainly  have  done  that  if  the  boys 
had  only  come  to  school  that  morning,  which, 
however,  they  did  not  do,  having  voted  them- 
selves a  holiday  already,  and  altogether  irre- 
spective of  Mr.  Neely— the  fact  being  that  Mr. 
Neely  wns  the  most  thoroughly  governed  indi- 
vidual in  the  school.     "Old  Neely?"  any  boy 


iicher,   "  why.  old  Neely  i 


Militated  hostility  to  the  North, 
venture  to  make  e\cep(mn-  in 
t  least,  it,  i>  to  be  hoped— some, 
the  North ;  Mr.  Neely  < 


,zr, 


ipon  the  topic  of  the  day, 

lighlv  those  in  which  the  Yankees 
er.il.lv  demolished.  "Nero  was  the  Ty- 
f  i he  Roman  Empire,  and  Lincoln  is  ihc 
t  of  America,"  "Only  JLJowdcr  ami  Steel 
re  the  North  of  its  Phrctisv,"  "Jefferson 
is  the  Washington  of  our  New  Nation," 
-     set  by  T      ' 


iLddv  pairiutic 
rviile  Star  sign 


appeared  in  the  Somcrville  .: 
h  Mr.  Neely  had  never  denied  a-,  |(,i|i- 
jen.  In  fine,  if  Mr.  Neely  left  any 
>ne  in  proof  of  his  sincere  devotion  I 

e  oi  Secession  it  is  impossible  to  im 
:  that  thing  was.    When  he  arrived  in 

le   lie  possessed  a  Daguerreotype  of  I 

,.\    lar/'-   one   and   a   \-<-y\    ..;■-., o  ula;   ii 


likeness  in  the  first  fervors  of  the  war  ?  Shall  it 
be  added  that  of  this  he  afterward  boasted  with 
all  phrases  suitable  to  such  a  deed  ?  Artistical- 
ly considered  this  ought  not  to  be  mentioned,  on 
account  of  its  improbability,  yet  was  it  simple 

And  yet?  True  as  it  is  of  the  teacher  it  is 
equally  so  of  all  other  Northern-born  Secession- 
ists—they never  were  thoroughly  trusted  and  be- 
lieved in  as  being  really  "sound." 

"It  isn't  nature,"  Mrs.  Juggins  was  continu- 
ally remarking  to  husband  and  visitors,  "for 
any  body  to  turn  so  agin  their  own  people.  You 
needn't  tell  me  what  good  Secessionists  that 
Lamum  an'  Neely  an'  the  rest  are,  I  don't  be- 
lieve a  bit  in  them  myself.  And  there's  Brother 
Barker,"  adds  Mrs.  Juggins,  after  a  long  pause, 
approaching  the  subject  with  reluctance.  "Oh, 
I  know  how  well  and  how  much  he  talks.  But 
—somehow— yes.  Ah,  well,  don't  it  'pear  to 
you  Brother  Barker  is  too  feverish  like,  kind  o' 
over-het?"  and  Mrs.  Juggins  looks  you  anxious- 
ly and  inquiringly  in  the  eyes  as  she  kuits. 

And  this  was  the  universal  feeling  whether  ex- 


ntly  : 


The 


ersal  chorus  would  have  broken  forth,  "AYan- 

Mrs.  Bowles  was  pleased  to  see  *Mr.  Neely, 
owever,  and  conversed  eagerly  with  him  on  the 
lorious  news— an   unconscious    condescension 

Carolina  lady  conversing  with  a  New  Engender 


than  taken  for  granted  on  his.  To  a 
horn  and  living  at  the  North  would  or  c 
Neely  have  been  so  obsequious,  so  del 
It  isanunpleasautthing  lu  write,  but  it 


addn ■>-■,!  huii-ell  mainly  to  Mrs.  Bowles,  i 
with  chief  reference  t...  Mi..,  Alice  thai  he  - 
The  truth  is,  the  man  really  admin  d  and 


bearing,  a  dignity  inherited 
Id  father  the  Major,  in  her  re- 
ul  in  her  full  and  steady  eye, 


rat,  v. mire  of  low  .le-re. 
if  noble  dame.  Marry  in  ■ 
li  w.n  next  to  being  bon 


'that  the  Hag  you 


Miss  Alice,"  he  s; 
presented  that  dc_ 
fight."     And  Mr.  Neely  went  back  iu  memory 

to  the  day  of  its  presentation,  Alice  standing  on 
the  platform  with  the  colors  in  her  hand,  saying 
her  few  thrilling  words  more  with  eye  and  cheek 
and  attitude  than  with  tongue,  a  goddess  to  him 
from  that  moment  henceforth  and  forever.  For 
the  moment  Alice  had  endeavored  to  believe  her- 
self then  and  there  a  sort  of  "heroine  of '7G" 


hut    ltlldetilied   roiKciullMlrs: 

"Yes,"  said  Alice;  "hut 
to  kno»  the  fate  of  the  men 
now,  than  anv  thing  else. 
Ne.ly    Willfully    turned    tli< 


shall  bo  compelled  to 
s  upon  them  there.  P 
>f  the  kind  may  satisfy  t 


said  Mr.  Neely. 

"  ]uith-d,-e  Bowles  was  then  i 
said  Mr-.  Bowles,  "in  obedience 


not.  feel  as  satisfied  with  Mr.  Davis  and  his  ar. 
rangements  as  could  be  wished.  It  is  a  litth 
hard  that  South  Carolina  should  be  second  t< 
Mississippi,  taking  the  lead  in  the  revolution  tin 
way  my  native  Slate  did.     It  is  only  for  the  pies 

Thereupon  Mr.  Neely  entered  upon  a  glowiiif 
eulogy  of  South  Carolina,  adroitly  worded,  too 
in  the  midst  of  which  the  bell  rang  for  supper. 

"Really,  I  had  completely  forgotten  myself, 
he  said,  as  he  arose.  "Only  when  one  gets  t< 
speaking  of  South  Carolina — " 

"Stay  to  supper  with  us,  Mr.  Neely,"  sail 
Mrs.  Bowles,  with  a  warmer  manner  than  whei 
ho  first  came,  and  with  perhaps  somewhat  mon 
of  hesitation  and  of  apology  for  possible  intrusioi 
than  was  necessary,  Mr.  Neely  at  last  consented 


"but  you  are  really  looking  as  if  you  had  just 
risen  from  a  severe  illness."  It  was  a  fact;  the 
pale,  care-worn  face  of  Edward  Arthur  contrast- 
happy  countenance  of  Mr.  Neely  by  bis  side. 

"Yes,  Madam,  I  had  no  sleep  last,  night,"  was 
the  reply  of  that  gentleman  as  he  endeavored  to 

"Why,  as  to  that,  none  of  us  slept  last  night," 
said  the  schoolmaster.  "  Glorious  news  I  Was 
it  not,  Mr.  Arthur?" 

,  the  temptation,  the  pressing,  the  i 


Satan  is  Satan,  God;  ■  God 

the  lying,  downright  lying, 
"Union  people  at  the  South- 


part  ot  the 
ides  of  them 
terrible  demorali- 
zations of  the  times.  If  ever  necessity,  the  fear 
of  consequences,  the  unparalleled  nature  of  the 
case,  justified  people  in  this,  of  course  they  were 
completely  justified.  But  can  any  thing  make 
a  wrong  to  be  a  right  ?  Docs  God  ever  so  place 
man  that  he  must  sin  ?     Alice  was  cutting  cake 

alert  for  Mr.  Arthur's  reply,  though  she  raised 


It  needs  no  confin 

d  astonished  Mr.  Neely.    ' '  The  vi 
:  already  knew  would  take  place  \ 


lies  joined.    The  i 

st  pardon  : 


my  dominant  feeling  sir 

of  sorrow,    said  the  mit 

"Sorrow,    Mr.   Art! 

Bowles  and  Mr.  Neely  i 


know  niy  pi'oh's-iotj  has  habiti 
on  thing-  in  that  light.  Pardon 
of  a  civil  war  in  our  country, 


oberts,  and  I  really  b 


well  as  every  other  Benevolent  Assoc i 


i ■  ami' ela. 


members  of  c 

ding  and  npn-lal  i/.me,  h>  mi 
u-.li   Ihe  mind-  nt  worldly   i 


—that  of  the  Gospel- 
deadly  influences  of  v 
—yet  was  Brother  Bu 


Ah,  d  Brother  Barker  had  been  the  only  min- 
Idiers    gambling   at.  his   feet,    spotted    with    Ins: 


trong  crying  to  God 
arknesfl.  You  who, 
n,  or  as  heartily  with 


lid  Mr.  Neely,  after 

entire  North5  toC  have  1 
This  is  a  religious  ^ 
:octrine  in  regard  to  £ 


"Mr.  Neely,"  said  Alice  at  this  juncture 
"how  then  about  England  and  old  Scotlund- 
tll  Protectant  Europe?" 

"I  do  not  exactly  understand  your  qucstioi 
Miss  Alice,"  suid  Mr.  Neely,  intensely  on  th 

"  I  mean,  only  for  argument  sake,  you  know, 
;aid  Alice,  "does  Protestant  Europe  stand  oi 
bis  quest  ion  with  the  North  or  with  the  South?' 
'Really,  1  am   not  sure,"  began  Mr.  Nccl) 


But  he  saw  t 
knew,  the  facts  of  the 
I  believe,"  he  added, 
clear  and  steady  eye. 
"And  are  they  all  i 


-ill  liankly  sav  what  I  really  and  trulv  belicv. 
ud  that  is,  that  almost  the  whole  Christta 
'lunch    is   becoming   infidel,  .Jacobinical.       IS 


ism,  then,  and  Conservatism,  between  infidelity 
and  the  Gospel,  in  fact,  I  do  believe  that  there 
is  only  one  spot  on  the  globe  in  which  the  pure 
and  genuine  Gospel  lingers,  and  that  is  iu  the 
South.  I  wish  to  flatter  no  one,"  added  Mr. 
Neely,  "but  of  all  the  South  I  do  believe  that 
piety,  the  purest  and  most  strictly  in  accordance 
with  the  Bible-Old  Testament  as  well  as  New 
—is  to  he  found  in  South  Carolina.  I  myself 
was  born  at  the  North,"  continued  Mr.  Neely, 


nil.   I'm 


Yes,   Mr.   Ne( 

Mrs.  Bowles  cordially  approved  tut 

nd  assured  Mr.  Neely  how  highly  t 


i  must,  Mr.  Arthur." 


nl  and  -iii.ph  iiupo.-sible  that  1 ; 
,  somehow,  his  reply  did  not  i 


is  meant  when  the  dispatch  says  that  Beauregard 
lell  back  from  Shiloh  some  twenty  miles  to  Cor- 
inth.    I  am  confident  of  the  gallantry  of  our 

Thereupon  Mr.  Neely  hastened  to  explain  mat- 
ters, showing  that  it  was  a  kind  of  military  strat- 
egy almost  invariably  adopted  by  victorious  ar- 
mies.     Alice  listened",  bid  replied  not. 

"Oh,  you  mustn't  mind  Alice,  Mr.  Neelv," 
said  Mrs.  Bowles,  at  length.  "She  is  a  willful 
girl,  and  she  has  an  independent  habit  of  her 


"Wlmt  do  you  say  to  Tanker  Doodle,  or 
Hail  Columbia,  or  the  Star-spangled  Banner, 
Mr.  Neely?"  said  Alice,  looking  back  upon  that 


humous  of  the  day. 


,  -.Nil,    .r-il-.    ..  |.|:r  I  'I..,,.,  "  I   hip, 'I  ..in  J.  .v  light  :.|...,l-,bi 


\  f\VITH  THE  MOSQUES    AXL>   MINARETS  IN  TUB  HOLY  PLACK.-[See  Page  170.]. 


HAMPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  17, 1866. 


VIEWS  IN  THE  HOLY  LAND. 


h.,1  ,.|.|  |..i  »,:'•:  'i'"1  ]li-  ''I-  ",;'.v  ,i;m"  '"""'' 
i  [lie  waters  Hint  "  m:i  !.■  glad  tho  city  oft.nd,  ' 
Uitside  of  the  walls  tin  Viilli-y  of  Kiilron  sepa* 
,-.  Jerusalem  from  tlic  Mount  of  Olives.  This  is 
known  as  the  Valley  of  Jehoshaphat, 


hills — .lusus  was  brought  up  it*  a  child,  and  wa- ; 
jectto  His  meek  and  loving  mother,  "  full  of  graci 


neighbor,  anil  friend.  Fur  years  ho  gazed  on  this 
landscape,  and  walked  along  these  mountain  paths, 
and  worshiped  Ciud  among  these  Solitudes. 

The  Church  of  the  Holy  Skpoixjhbe,  in  which 


«■    lli.lv   N-jl- 


GBEENWOOD  CEMETERY. 

It  ib  now  more  than  twenty  years  since  Green- 
wood Cemetery  was  opened  for  the  purposes  of  in- 


magnilicent  pillar 

iters  second  to  none  in  Brooklyn. 
The  grounds  of  this  Cemetery, 

Gowanus  Heights,  about  two  and  a 

the  Atlantic  Ferry.     The; 

ing  and  diversified,  presenting  continual  changes  < 

surface  and  scenery,  and  are  remarkably  adapted  i 


York  and  Brooklyn.  The  gateway  i,  an  impostng 
and  elaborate  Gothic  edifice,  solidly  constructed  of 
the  best  Now  .Ici.-ey  sandstone.  Two  passage-  ways 
through  the  inas-iv.  structure-arc  appropriated— <-ne 


Ui'S  ANT)  DDWXS. 


Bcliool  punctually  every  i 


■   l.nh   of  111.'  : 


?ightccn,  :. g  to 

ill  boys  du  who  in- 
rs  like  Mr.  '1  upper, 


and  her  name  was  Christine'licll. 

l  vast  diOVreiice  between  a sehool- 

.1  a  young  lady  of  the  same  age  in 

society.     Christine  was  a  beauty,  and  she  had  scv- 

Oneof  these  was  a  prosperous  young 


(ml  In-  grocery   in  the  ovrning- 
I'lieii  angry  ami  disrespectful.  w>  i 
hi  aMhally  callim;  liiin   High-Ian 


was  this  title  which  discouraged  Vhris- 


t  marry  Christie 
ludv, and  a  very  -rood  v 
lie  Mi  ,nv  village  Olillanv., 


,e  very  hot  day.  when  the  eit\  was  a  lear- 
■(  to  the  cool  delight  of  tile  ,'e  L—ido— ami 
in.  He  was  glad  tn  -ie  me.  and  I  ha-t- 
ologize  lor  having  married  Christine. 

o  move  about  it,  Mr.  lii  ov.  u,"  -aid  he  ;  "  I 


[■  liahi.  •':   mine  are  v.  ell.  thanl, 
How  many?" 
Four.      What's  tliav  .-ticking  u 


-A  reporter  for  the  /■„,...-  Why.  how 
etting  on,  ain't  you  >     The  last  I  heurdof 

lad  got  out  a  volume  ol   ] ins  in  a  yellow 

congratulate  you  oil  your  improved  pn>— 
have  a  great  re -peel  for  the  Ti.ms,  and  I 
;  to  a.-k  Mr.  lli\  mynd  if  he  wouldn't  lil-.e 
lide  iii  my  halh.ou.  Ihit  1  have  negleeled 
Py-tlii— nay,  that  remind-,  me  :    wouldn't 

,  yes,"  said  I;  "  I  should  like  to  go  up  if  I 


r  got!  You  Bhull  go  up  at  the  end 
liiii  thousand  feet  long,  that  rope, 
i  down  again  all  safe."    'lliero  was  ai 

lat  let  the  balloon 
"Pretty  bight,  ain't  it?"  the  Pro- 
■itb.  a  yawll.    He  was  used  to  it,  you 


y.hi-g  the  balloon  dwindle  out  of  sight,  or  so 
larly  out  of  sight  that  it  appeared  no  bigger  than 

"They're  coming  down  now,"  said  Professor 
itkson.      "  Will  you  go  up  this  time  ?" 

"  I  suppose  it's  perfectly  cafe  t" 

■'Why,  you're  not  afraid,  are  you?  You  some- 
,-,.  -  ride  in  railroad  ear-.  don't  you?" 

"  When  I  am  compelled  to  I  do,"  said  I. 

•'  Well !  what  proportion  of  danger  do  you  rcal- 


I  can  put  it,  in  round  numbers,  I  should  say  the 
chances  were  about  fourteen  million  to  ooc  in  favor 
of  the  balloon." 

"That's  not  tlio  precise  figure,"  said  Professor 
Jnckeon  ;  "  but  it's  very  nearit— it's  very  nearit." 


Tin-   pol ■<■-'   ■-'  '   into   tin 

r,  but  in  point  ol  fact  it  i 
\  onng  laily  got  in.  This  v 
baigaiucd  lor,  bat  il  awakenc 


:  into  the  car.     The  grapnel.-; 


■  tip-  [  infilling  the  balloon], 
young  lady'].  The  hami  down 
:  Who    uill'   fare    for     Mother 


m"].  M.ini-li  u-.-l  in  :-.  Mom.— Kit -J  :.<■■!/ 
.  Wind  I.l<.«M]io\er  the  Park.  That 
id,  etc.  Lakes,  etc.  Map  ot  the  earth. 
o  realize.      Pigmies  down  there.     Look 

Waw  iheir  haudken  hicf-;  tons.  — Wave 


glary.     Bay  doited  with 
Y'oung  hidy  says 


Water  looks   like   i 


Delightfully  void, 

>n't  see  ir[hy\'ZX^. 
444.  Says  his  name  is  Fi-h. 
Young  lady  excited  ami  talk- 


ative.   "Where 

Propose  to  cut  it  and  see.  Policeman 
arrest  me.  Twitch  !  Balloon  going  do 
Ah,  what  a  vulgar  world  we 


'Hail  tot 

jw  are  you,  Professor?"1 


cried,  as  I  got  out 


thing  compared  i 
iv,"  said  the  Pro 
"Nothing  at  all.' 


After  tea  that  night  I  talked  so  long  with  Chris- 
tiue  about  my  ride  in  the  air  that  when  I  thought 
about  preparing  my  note  for  the  rimes  it  was  too 
late.  So  I  ate  a  large  piece  of  mince-pie  and  went 
to  bed. — The  reader  may  think  my  recording  that  I 
ate  a  piece  of  mince-pie  is  a  piece  of  domestic  ego- 
tism, and  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  story.  But  I 
think  it  has  a  good  deal  to  do  with  the  story. 

I  was  just  dozing  oil' when  I  was  awakened  by  a 
loud  r:i|.piuL'  at  mv  ■  hamber-door. 

"WhoV  there?'"  I  cried. 

"It's  me,  Sir — wid  a  letthor." responded  the  voice 
of  our  Bridget.  "  A  man  jist  brung  it  to  the  base- 
ment-door, Sir,"  Bridget  continued,  as  I  opened  the 
chamber-door  a  crack  and  took  the  letter  in.  "He 
said  fer  mo  to  bring  it  up  at  waust,  Sir,  bein'  it  was 
important." 


e  bottom  of  the  hole,  Mipcriuicnding  the  prepar- 


ing in  the  light  morning  breeze,  impatient  of  the 
grapnels  that  held  it  to  the  earth.  Half  a  dozen 
bags  of  sand  were  being  put  into  the  car,  and  vnri- 

roomy  car  lay  a  mysterious  ft 

w  hat— covered  w  ith  a  long  canvas  case. 

"  You're  on  time,  Mr.  Brown,"  said  the  Professor, 


"Always  am,"  said  I. 

"Well,' well  start  right  off." 

"  Where's  the  other  man  ?"  I  asked. 

;'Tou  are  the  other  nmn,"  said  d.,ek,on. 

"  But  the  other  f"  I  persisted. 


Vas  it  o 


1  to  me  as  if  he  asked  n 


Robespierre — would  use  in  addressing 
But  I  made  no  rec      " 
grapnels  were  let  1 


palling  rapidity.  Professor  Jackson 
untying  tho  string  from  the  neck  of  the 
batr.  to  empty  its  contents  and  increase 


us  with  ap- 

was    jdivady 


ipeed.     Out  tumbled  tho  sani 

ifter  its  contents. 

"Why  do  you  v/t 
;on?"saidI. 

"  Itdoa't signify,'1 


daek-on   three,    t 


fascinating  interest 

decessor.      My  he 

sioned  by  the  moti 
"How  high  do- 


a  deep  and 
He  was  immediately  clawing 
er  bog,  which  followed  its  pre- 
1  swam   with   dizziness,  occa- 


'  How  high  up?" 

'To  the  moon  — to  the  blue  blazes  — to 
ere!"  he  shouted,  as  he  stood  erect  in  the 
1  hurled  the  last  bag  out  without  emptying  i 
contents  impatient  of  his  nervous  fingers. 

■'  Mad  ?     No,  Via  not  a  bit  mad." 

'I  have  gone  high  enough.     Let  us  go  dowi 

'Look  here,  Brown.     You'vo  no  doubt  re; 


had  a 


;yout 


with  me  first  t  you  married  Christine  Bell.      I  want- 
ed her  myself,  and  I  swore,  years  ago,  tliat  whoever 
got  her  I  would  take  him  away  from  hor  somehow. 
it,  old  Browny — so  make 
comfortable,  since  you  can't  get  out.     You 
a  the  last  of  old  mother  earth  ;  those  clouds 
there  have  -hnt  it  from  sight  forever.     Ha! 
"  he  laughed,  with  intense  glee,  leaning 
side  of  the  car  and  niM.ing  hi-h  an,  yelh.w 
this  is  glorious,  isn't  it?     Let's 
ve  a  bottle  open.     Where's  that  bjastly  cork- 
rew  ?     Much  good  thaf]\  do  you,  my  friend !" 
The  last  remark  was  elicited  by  a  spring  I  a 
valve-rope,  as  he  lea 


'1  hat's  :,11    111.  i.-   i- 


hand-   hri-klv. 


I  began  to  appreciate  the  dangers  of  my  position 
in  terrible  earnest.  Let  me  be  calm  andcollect  my 
thoughts.  So  highly  rarefied  was  the  thin  atmos- 
phere which  we  were  cleaving  with  steady  upward 
bound  that  even  now  I  breathed  with  difficulty. 
How  many  minutes  more  would  it  probably  be  ere 
we  reached  a  height  where  existence  must  end? 
Had  I  not  heard,  or  read,  or  dreamed,  of  one  in  a 
like  danger  with  this, 
net-work  of  the  balloon 


opened  the  valve  wit 
1  fearfully  dangeivms  bat,  hi 
make.     I   threw  nft  my  eoa' 


though  I  was  chilled  t 

"What  now?"  crie- 

it !     I'm  as  strong  as 


He  only  laughed  sueeringly,  but  he 
made  a  fierce  Btrugglc,  and  sueceedei 
igh  enough  to  touch  the  swollen  mt 
ead.     Whipping  out  my  pocket-knife, 


canvas.  To  my  horror,  the  seam  thus  opened  ran 
high  up  the  balloon.  The  gas  escaped  with  a  sound 
like  the  rushing  of  a  whirlwind.  The  great  globe 
collapsed  like  a  pricked  bubble ;  the  canvas  fell 


Fool!     What  have  ; 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


floor  of  the  c 
Oh,  fool   tt 


"  he  screamed.  "  I  -will 
I  was !  Why  did  I  not 
beastly  coward?     I  ora 


I'Up!  up!      Imnstt 

Ami  with  ,i  sudden  spring 

the  car ;  then  fell  down,  yelling  and  cursing. 

The  clouds  were  passed  and  the  earth  dawned 
upon  my  view.  A  current  swept  me  aside,  and  I 
saw  the  madman  no  more.  It  was  with  great  dif- 
ficulty I  clung  to  the  careering  car,  but  the  ropes 
helped  me.  I  whirled  onward  toward  my  death. 
I  shall  be  nm^atcil  beyond  all  recollection  by  tho 
fall,  I  thought,     Olt,  what  a  ghastly  fate! 

Suddenly  my  eye  fell  upon  the  long,  mysterious, 
canvas-covered  package  that  I  had  observed  when 
we  left  the  earth.  What  it  contained  was  still  un- 
known to  me.  I  hastily  tore  off  the  covering,  and 
perceived  the  article  within  to  be  a  something  made- 
of  iron  wires  and  oiled  silk.  Closer  inspection 
showed  me  that  it  was  a  parachute.  Wbat  a  thrill 
of  joy  ran  through  me  as  I  made  this  discovery 


oaken  ring,  capable  of  being  grasped  by  the  twe 
hands.  I  grasped  it  so,  and  leaped  from  the  car, 
repelling  it  with  my  foot  as  a  swimmer  repels  the 
boat  from  which  he  springs  into  tho  flood;  at  the 


d  Mi-Iain  tin'  pre.--u.n-  i>t  the  air  h.ih1,t- 
great  was  the  momentum  villi  whi.  b  1 
and  Hooked  up  at  ils  wide  canopy 


"Thank  Heaven!"  I  cried;  '"it  stands  tho  test! 
I  shall  be  saved!" 

I  was  now,  I  judged,  only  something  like  a  thou- 
sand feet  above  the  earth,  and  descending  with  com- 
parative slowness.  I  uegan  to  speculate  upon  the 
prospect  before  me.  I  scarcely  hoped  to  escape  un- 
injured; but  a  broken  leg  was  a  more  bagatelle  to 


ell  down,  down,  fast- 


I  opened  my  eyes  to  find  that  I  had  evidently 
alien  down  my  own  chimney,  for  here  I  was  in  my 
»wn  bedchamber,  and  my  darling  Christine  yawn- 

t;    and    bad    I    fallen  out   of  bed,   dear:    and  why 


have  had  quite  enough  of  it.  Nor  have  '. 
seen  Professor  Jackson,  though  I  have  hcai 
bewa-  getting  on  comfortably  in  bis  busines: 
is  quite  welcome  t 
ups  and  downs. 


BET'S  MATCH-MAKING. 

The  only  time  I  ever  ti 

life  was  v.  lien  I  was  so  vent 
nay  fingers  over  die  basin- 
to  meddle  with  it  again. 
with  my  step-mot  hci  u!i  li 
My   father  wa>  dead,  ami 


1  marriage,  though  I 


i  America,  who  had   unwillingly  o.>n.-ciiU'i.i 
ne  off  her  hands. 

1   think  it   would  have  '"'en  half  as  hard  for 
a\e  made  u[>  niv  mind  to  die;  fori  was  a 

.■  iliin:_',  wilhimi  a  bit  of  courage  to  deal  with 


,  and  to  l..iai.ie-  lover,  Donnell  M'Don- 


■vt.-1-eM.  of  all  Mi,-;  Dofan'a  a| 
an  orphan  without  a  Irieiiu  i 

ic  was  the  luvelic-t  girl  in  tl) 
1  .-.-he  was  pnaid  and  vain,  In 


Gracie  was  the  ■ 
prentices.  She  w 
look  after  her,  and 
country.  People  i 
I  never  could  think  show; 
one  another  dearly,  though  I  can  not  think  what  at- 
tracted her  to  poor  little  plain  me.  She  had  plenty 
of  admirers,  and  she  queened  it  tinely  among  them  ; 
but  the  only  one  to  whom  I  would  have  given  bur 
with  all  my  heart  was  Donnell  M'Donnell.  And,  oh 
dear !  he  was  the  very  one  whom  she  would  not  look 


promised  to  do  all  1 


should  live  like  a  lady,  i 


Id  to  help  him  with  i 
I  strong,  and  as  bom 


ter  own  jaunting-car.  But  she  was  always  saying 
bat  she  would  go  away  to  London,  and  bo  a  great 
'  West-End"  milliner.  This  lerritied  me  badly,  ice- 
ng  that  London  is  such  a  wicked  place. 

lways  crying  out  thai  Gia- 


For  I  felt  the  greatest   pilY  ill  I  he  V 

for  kind  big  Donnell's  di- appointment. 

My  step-mother  was  provoked  at  my  sad  1; 
next  day.  and  called  me  ungrateful.  But  who 
cried  bitterly  ^he  got  a  little  kinder,  and  in  the  ev< 
ing  allowed  mo  to  go  into  Ballymcna  to  see  i 

was  getting  red  upon  the  fences,  I  wrapped  my  sha 

to  ease  my  heart,  all  along  the  lonely  road,  win 
there  was  no  ono  to  hear  me  but  the  robins.  '1 
brown   trees  against   the  dusky  red  sky,  the  wh 


but  Gracie's  great  lover,  Donuell. 

eyes  were  only  watering  with  the 
ned  and  walked  alongside  of  me  for 


Then  he   shook    niv   tw 
squeezed  them  into  jelly,  j 
When  I  went  into  Miss  Dorai 


the  eandle,  putting  the  flowers  On  a  ball-dross  for 
one  of  the  county  ladies.  She  having  tho  nicest 
taste,  had  always  the  honor  of  giving  the  finishing 
touches  to  the  most  particular  work.  She  looked 
very  tired,  but  oh,  sohandsuinc,  with  her  polo  cheek 
against  the  yellow  light,  and  her  dark  head  beading 


11  A  hud  here,"  said  she,  "and  a 


"Don't  talk 


spray  there,  ami 
avo  done.     You'll  come  home  with  mo  aud 

That  emss  step-mother  of  yours  won't  sco 
in  to-night." 

Gracie,"  said  I;  "bu^I 
ending  to  •lay."  And  the  work  being  liu- 
went  home  to  her  lodgings. 
!ly  bunch  of  (lowers  was  lying  on  her  table, 
and  she  laughed  and  blushed,  and  looked  beautiful 
when  she  saw  it. 

"Who  is  that  from,  Gracie?"  said  I.     "Don- 

"No  indeed,"  said  she,  tossing  her  head.  But 
I  was  sure  that  was  a  fib,  for  she  looked  as  happy 
as  possible,  lying  resting  herself  in  her  arm-chair 
beside  the  tire  while  I  set  out  the  tea-things.  Sho 
looking  so  glad,  and  the  shabby  room  looking  so 
snug,  and  our  little  tea-drinking  being  ao  cozy,  I 

began  to  set  about  Donnell's  business. 

"Gracie,"  said  I,  "I  wish  you  would  marry 

"Soon?"  said  she,  opening  her  eyes  and  looking 
"I'll  never  many  him!" 
iow,  Gracie,"  said  I,  getting  hot 
ou  ought  to  marry  him.  Ho  Bays 
•—you  have  made  him  the  laugh- 
cried  she.     "And  so  he  has  been. 


ai.  i no  angrily. 


i  on  business,  M'Dou- 


I  by  him  and  her  other  beaux,  Don- 
kissed  me,  mul  Donuell  drew  my  arm 


'I  did  not  say  that,"  said  1 


'  but    oil.    Cl.irir, 


be  Donnell." 

"There  is  no  . 
"  It  could  not  be 

"Ton  my  word,"  said  she,  Btaring  at  mo,  "I 
think  you  had  better  go  and  marry  him  yourself." 

"I?  Oh  Gracie!"  said  I,  starting  up  and  sitting 
down  again,  aDd  beginning  to  cry,  "  I  wanted  to 
tell  yon  that  1  am  going  to  America." 

You  may  be  sure  we  talked  no  more  about  Don- 


Donuell  did  i 
ing  mo  a  feast  bi 
three  pipers  b,  pi  ay,  and  half 
dance.  '  Gracie  and  I  met  at  t 
walked  over  to  the  farm  together,  she  bringing  a 
troop  of  beaux  with  her  from  the  town.  The  farm 
is  a  dear  old  place,  with  orchard  trees  growing  up 
round  the  house,  and  it  looked  =o  homely  that  frosty 

vn  room.      Gracie 

r  stroKed  my  hair  with  her 
f  holly  in  the  front  of  my 
She  kept  mo  with  her  after  Gracie 
I  gone  down  stairs,  holding  my  hand,  ai 
e  about  my  going  to  America.  And  the 
safe  and  warm,  and  she  was  so  kind  ant 
.  after  what  I  was  accustomed  to  at  home 


to  work,  and  Gracie  was  as  amiable  as  possible  to 
Donnell.    But  just  in  the  middle  of  our  dancing  the 

l.-'eh  of  the  back-door  was  lifted,  and  Squire  Ilan- 


In  tho  first  place,  it  H 

his  marry  ing  for  spite  before  Sunday,  and  then 
will  be  so  glad  to  see  him   coming,  in   spite  ut' 
crossness,  that  she  will  be  quite  kind  to  him. 
is  always  so  stiff  and  proud  when   she  treats  I 
badly  that  I  am  sure  it  makes  her  worse.    She  l 


I   was  laid  up  with  a  .-piaiued  ; 

rture  was  put  off. 

i  Sunday  evening  a  neighbor  v, 


ii  there  of  course,  and  (hat  one  had 
wonder.      Gracie  Byrne  had  been 

h  dies,;,  and  Squire  Hannan  had 


"And   Donnell 

M'Donnell  was  wit 

l  her,  of 

"Av,  'deed  you  may  swear  it,"  said  il 

e  woman. 

"That'll  be  a  mate 

l  belore  long,      lb'  walki-d  home 

him  liko 

"They'll  be  mar 

icd  bofore  I  go  away, 

said  I  to 

mv-ell  ;  and  I  lean 

r,  for  tho 

pain  of  mv  foot  sickened  me. 

Donnell's  mothe 

brought  me  a  distort 

"Donnell's  gon 

to  the  Glens,  my  dear,"  said 

s  you.      He  went  before  we  heard  of  your  loot, 

d  he  won't  be  home  for  a  week." 

"What's  ho  doin'  there?"  asked  my  atep-mo- 


with  them  that  has  charge  of  it,     I  don't  know 
rightly  what  he's  gone  about  now.     Something  has 

those  few  days  hack.       He  said  somethin'  about 

it's  not  afther  his  heart;  for  I  never  saw  a  bride- 
groom so  glum  on  the  head  of  it.     Bet,  dear,  I 

thought  it  was  you  he  liked." 


nt  of  my  foot.     Gracie  came  tho  next  day  or 

and  surely  I  was  amazed  at  tho  glory  of  her 

ss!     My  slop-mother,  who  did  not  like  her,  left 

alone   together,  and  Gracie's  news  came  out. 

1  was  going  to  be  married  on  next  Tuesday. 

■  I   know  that,"  said  I. 

'  How  do  you  know  it  '<"'  said  she 

'Donnell's  mother  told  me." 

'  Donnell's  mother  !     Nothing  but  Donnell  and 

mell's  mother  from  you  forever!     How  should 


you  not  glad?" 
to  me,  Bet.     I 


they  say  lie's  gono  to  tho  Glens." 

"Oh,  uji  I"  said  I,  beginning  to  groan  again,  and 
pretending  it  was  nil  my  foot.  After  Miat  Grade, 
talked   about  herself  and  Squire.  Hannan  until  sho 

tie  sorry  to  part  with  her  before.     Sho  scorned  not 
to  be  my  own  (Iraeio  any  longer. 

And  now  I  was  nearly  out  of  my  senBes,  think- 
ing what  mischief  might  come  of  my  meddling.  I 
was  sure  that  Donnell  mid  Squire  Hannan  would 
light  and  kill  one  another,  and  nil  through  me.     I 


up  tho  road  toward  the  (Ileus,  i  soon  got  tired  and 
dreadfully  cold,  as  I  could  not  walk  fast,  and  I  sat 
down  on  a  bit  of- an  old  gray  bridge  to  watch  for 
At  last  became  thundering 
lougli  it  was  getting  dusk  I  could 
1  his  head  down,  and  Jooked  dread- 


"Hut  indeed  it  is,"  said  I.  "Oh,  Donnell,  did 
you  hear?  I  cumo  to  tell  you.  Gracie  was  mar- 
ried Ibis  morning  In  Srpiinj  Hannan." 

"Whew!"  Ho  gavo  a  long  whistle.  "Thejilt!" 
said  he,  and  he  snapped  his  fingers.  Bnthis  whole 
face  brightened  up. 

"  She's  not  so  much  a  jilt  as  you  think,  DonuelL" 


"  Won't  I,"Miidh.-,  l.".].iug  awfully  savage.  "I 
cut  a  great  blackthorn  this  morning  in  the  Gienjj 
for  no  other  purpose  but  to  heat  out  his  brains." 

I  gave  a  great  scream,  and,  dre.pping.niy  stick, 
fell  along  with  it;  but  Donnell  picked  me  up,  and 
set  me  sale  on  his  horso  In-hind  him. 

"Now,"  eaid  he,  "I'll  tell  you  what  it  is.  little 
Bet.  I'll  make  a  bargain.  You'll  marry  me,  and 
I  won't  touch  Squire  Hannun." 

"I  marry  you?"  cried  I,  "after— after  Gracie. 
Indeed  I  will  not,  Donnell  M'Donnell." 

"I've  behaved  badly,"  said  he,  "but  I'm  very 
sorry.  It's  long  since  I  liked  you  better  tban 
Gracie,  but  the  devil  of  pride  was  in  me,  and  the 
people  were  saying  she  would  jilt  me.     When  I  got 


.   dashed    otf   "it 


I  of  a 


bright  w 


dl. iraightin 

i  mother  bad  th. 

•  ready  lor  his  return. 

mother's  arms.      "  I  want  her  to  marry  me,  and 

[  did  my  best  to  keep  sulky  for  n  proper  length  ot 
le,  bot  it  was  the  hardest  thing  I  ever  tried  to  do, 

\  thev  both  ,-u  kind,  and  the  place  so  bright  and 


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-No.  482.] 


NEW  YORK,  SATURDAY,  MARCH  24, 


THE  LATE  COLONEL  BOWERS. 

Colonel  Theodore  S.  Bowers,  -who,  after 

pr^in-^Vlv  ihi"ii-liih«-|1.-lil.lllr(;,.|llT.iU;iuNi,s 

cam pal- ns   wns  kill,-, I   |.y  arriilenl   mi  ill.    ,  i  I,  m,r. 


Colonel  Bowehs  w;i'-.  will,  (,  rant  at  Forts  Henry 
and  Donelson,  and  until  the  9th  of  March  follow- 
ing,  when  he  accepted  the  I'n-.t-Ueutmrmcy  of  hi* 

I   ■■OipuM  ,  '!■.■   Iii!l     j;    tli.-   (  '.-.(.  Mil, re.    .vhi,   !,    iv   .;   ,,■,,- 

' '  "  'b  position  at  the  battle  of 
-i.-i^iiin  c;UIeil  toGiUNi'.i 


He  held  t 

Siuloh,. luring  whichh 

ikM.I-riiiarlei-s  and  appointed  Aid-de-eamp.  In  No- 
vember, 18C2,  he  was  made  Captain  and  Aid-de- 
camp,  and  soon  after  Major  and  Judge-Advocate  in 
the  Army  of  the  Tennessee.  In  September,  18G3, 
he  was  assigned  Assistant  Adjutant-General,  witli 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel— succeeding  to  Col- 
onel Rawlins,  promoted.  From  that  time  till  the 
surrender  of  Lee's  army  ho  was  General  Grant's 
chief  Assistant  Adjutant-General  in  the  field,  and  at 


September, 

einin.iii   .mi.-,   appointed  Major  and  Assistant 
Adjutant-!, cinrral  in  the  regular  army. 

Colonel  Bowers  was  killed  instantly  by  falling 
be-twc-ii  tin-  curs  while  attempting  to  get  on  the 
train  as  it  was  leaving  Garrison's  Station  of  the 
llmbon  Kiwi'  Kailroad.  (inier.il  <  1  ham  with  his 
son,  accompanied  !>v  the  Colonel,  arrived  at  Garri- 
m.ii-s  .Station,  opposite  \Ve,t  Point,  at  u  late  hour 
on  the  evening  of  the  7th,  and  was  compelled  to  re- 
main overnight.  The  next  day  the  party  went 
'  "  >,  General,  leaving  I " 


West 

;,  returned  to  the  east  M.le  with  Colonel  Bow- 
ers. When  the  train  arrived  by  which  they  were 
to  return  to  New  York  some  difficulty  occurred  in 
relation  to  a  carpet-bug  belonging  to  tlio  party  be- 


3  about  it,  General 


m'M   hi  1  hi-  ivnr.      When  1 1 1 . -  :,.,rni    ur 

,,.,,  i„  

In  l,i|   olll,-  l„    |,„,|.,,|  „,,  ;,  ,:ll.p,.U|,.,,;  , 

(-1     ll     In     IlKI    VIVW    ul     Cnlmn-I      |1,,„,     ,, 

hl«ik.'ii   l.v  llio  ilrr,,,i<«l.      The  imiii  n 

Imhl  ul   IIk-  r.iihii.;  nn  (he  ]i],(tlbrm  of 

i-ir  in 

"l"llHirl,"l'l"',',NI  «:v!-ralv,l,i jiini|,.,l  upon 

""  "''I1'  '"■  l",,,,     llll'i""   '■'"'•  ' ■■■■-■■•■  ;ii;;ii.,:'.t 

""••■«< ■■'»  1"  I'l,  .!;   In,  lu.lil  ,„i  ll„-  mil,,,,,,  ],,.ci|ii- 
tating  linn  from  IV  „(,.,,.      I„  ||„,  ,; ,.  „„.,„„, 

lllS   llllllv   .-lIluM-    Ill,'    |,i|,S    r.dlin..     In    j,|,.    ,, 

11,  1,1,1,, 

ly.    Hib  body  woj  dragged  n i i,„ 

mi  In  a  awitdi  mill  over  it,  Hie  head  hoi 

body  of  tho  unfortunate  .nan  was  take 

.  from  tin, 

(i.iin-nl  Chant  was  notified  of  tlio 

■liilinl  l.y 

i.l,  "Hint 

liwii    Willi   in,.  Hi,.,,,;,!,  nil    n,v  l.rii  ll 

Tumi.,,. 
Mln,  l„„ly 

main  untU  further  orders. 

PAYING  PENSIONERS. 

We  give  an  illostr.-ili i  ihis  |,u,.o  oftlio  man. 

»'■'■  "'  "<"<-■> "1  SI  ito«     ii  i.i  ore  treated 

ul  the  Pension  Office  in  the  bo.Be ni  of  the  Qua. 

THELATE  COLONEL  THEODORE  a  B0WEH3,  ( 


j^_  PATIKU  UNITED  STATES  PENSIONEBS  AT  THE  PENSION  OFFICE  IN  THE  NEW  TOKK  CUSTOM-HOUSE. 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Mabch  24,  1866. 


t  of  the 

L'nited 

its  i„:iitn,lu 

hcsiti,.,! 

,11,1011  Tim,     i» 

good  enough 

erent  faith  in 

the  America 

The  Tones 

is  so  ki 

d  that  it  ackn 

wledges  its 

•  friendliness,  its 

its  sincerity. 

And 

icther  its  own 

Government 

is  quite 

SO   1  tgi" 

I  more  friendly  hy  leinj 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


madaes 

Iicla.id. 


ckV  day.  The  Catholic  Bishop  of  Toronto 
ssned  a  letter  advising  all  good  Catholics 
\v  tliat  England  may  do  justice  to  Ireland, 
;hat  divine  mercy  may  change  tho  hearts 
ose  who  pretend  to  remedy  the  evils  of 
nd  by  invading  Canada.  Certain  news- 
■s  in  this  country  magnify  even,'  thing  said 
lone  upon  the  subject ;  but  the  genius  of 
ey  plays  so  large  a  part  in  the  perform- 
that  it  is  not  easy  to  know  a  single  fact  of 

is  observable,  however,  that  the  Church  of 

id  oppose-  the  agitation,  and  that  no  con- 
■ns  Irish  leader  either  at  home  or  in  this 
ry  is  identified  with  it.  The  speeches,  so 
they  have  been  reported,  are  earnest  ap- 


overnment  is  fully 


.  and  the 


plan  of  action  is  any  where  appare: 

the  week  following  the  news  of  thi 

the  orators  in  this  country  adjured  their  hearer 

to  pour  out  money  to  aid  those  at  homo  wh 

were  "in  the  gap,"  and  who  were  doubtles 

even  then  fighting,  hut  the  subsequent  steam 

era  brought  tidings  of  nothing  bu 


The  only  i 


ey  will  demand  their  mone; 
leaders  pass  round  the  hal 
nmage,  a  scrimmage  of  sor 
t  be  or  their  own  heads  a 

peril  has  probably  passed  in 
ernment  is  in  the  held  first, 
igthens  it  and  deprives  an; 
ie  advantage  of  panic,  whic 
It  is,  therefore,  quite  tim 


ed 

the  pa^inlls 
-■nd  the  Fe- 
d  give  their 
■  worth.  If 
o  pay  for  a 

in  danger. 
:hmd.      The 


kely  to  become  of  the  money  which  they  may 
ive  subscribed  toward  the  Republic  of  Ire- 
nd.  That  Republic  can  not  be  established 
Canada  nor  in  Jones's  "Wood.  What  are 
ie  present  chances  of  its  establishment  upon 
e  green  isle?     Rash  men  may  canse  infinite 

id  elsewhere.      But  there  is  no  other  possible 


ng  profits.    That  was  flood-tide 


iiiteresi-hcaniig  logal  toiuler- 
ty  8180,000,000  aro  afloat- 
passed  out  of  circulation,  hen 


gressional    aetioi 
weeks,  if  not  day 

Congress  which  i 


plain  legal  tenders  and 
,  the  South  is  beginning 


ng  daily  without  Con- 
tho  eonrse  of  a  few 
o  bill  or  other  will  pass 


Lnder  these  circumstances,  it  is  plain 
prices  must  move  in  exacllv  the  direclie 
posito  to  that  which  they  pursued  whe 
currency  was  ever  on  the  increase. 

To  illustrate  the  point  by  a  familiar  exn 
*  ought  his  oats  of  a  dea 
,  taking  them  in  small  Ii 


vero  put  in  : 

illy  prnveil    | 


3  day.  He  bought 
.  fortnight  after  his 
ply.    They 


t  the  pnee  of  tho  day 
>  be  from  5  to  to  cents  a  bushel 
the  dealer  had  paid  for  them, 
rriiou  uio  turn  iu  prices  cam©  in  i865,  the 
dealer  attempted  to  charge  for  his  oats  the  price 
ho  had  paid  for  them.  "No,  no,"  said  his  cus- 
tharged 


'  you 


e    ri-ing    i 

whatever  i 
n  had  previously  pai 


;:.,],! 


THE  TUMBLE  IN  GOLD. 
Gold  has  fallen  again— below  i3o.  T) 
ivent  has  sent  a  thrill  through  commcrcis 
■gri  cultural,  and  industrial  society.  A  fall 
iplies  a  fall  in  produce,  which  reduc 
!  profits  of  farmers,  forwarders,  and  shippii 
rchants;  in  dry  goods  and,  general  me 
tiidi.so,  which  seiul-  merchants  home  with 


mestic  goods,  which  sets  manuf 
iny  whether  it  were  not  bettei 
up  mills  and  discharge  hands 
by  inches.  The  world  wags,  i  _ 
on  Chili,  the  President  makes  war  on  the  Radi- 
cals, the  Fenians  talk  war  against  England, 
history  is  being  made  daily  on  every  side ;  but 
nothing  in  all  this  comes  so  straight  home  tc 
every  man  as  the  fall  in  gold. 
The  readers  of  this  journal  have  been  fully 


I  of  dyi) 


bnyynld  I 
partment 


)  decline.     Ever  s 


:■■  [d    I 


for  the  Treasury  De- 


resistible  amounts.  The  only  supporters  of 
the  gold  market  are  operators  who  have  sold 
for  the  fall,  and  who  arc  obliged  to  buy  from 
time  to  time  to  fulfill  their  contracts.  It  would 
not  indeed  be  strange,  in  view  of  the  dullness 
of  exchange,  of  the  reduced  demand  for  im- 
ported goods,  of  the  increased  foreign  in- 
quiry for  Eive-Twenty  bonds,  of  the  prospect 
of  currency  contraction,  and  of  the  steadily  in- 
creasing supply  of  gold  from  California  and 
from  private  hoards,  if  the  price  fell  to  iz5  or 
even  lower  before  midsummer. 

To  producers,  manufacturers,  and  holders  of 
goods  this  is  an  unwelcome  prospect.  It  means 
a  steady  shrinkage  of  prices,  and  a  constant 
drain  upon  the  capital  of  holders  or  makers  of 
goods  and  merchandise.  But  it  is  bnt  natural. 
For  nearly  three  years  producers  and  holders 
of  goods,  produce  and  merchandise,  made  mon- 
ey so  easily  that  they  seemed  to  possess  the 
royal  key  to  wealth.    A  merchant  only  needed 


till  hi, 

XU  .lays 


agerh  depleted  it  on  a  suh- 
A  farmer  only  required  to 
ual  breadth,  and  his  profits 
of  previous  years.  Munu- 
led  to  keep  every  loom  at 

savor.  The  eurrene\  v.a- 
ig  in  volume  ami  delimit  i 


rule.  I  u  ill  pay  the  price  of  tho  day- 
So  the  dealer  throughout  this  winter  has  boon 
supplying  his  customer  at  a  loss.  He  must  buy 
to  supply  his  customers ;  but  every  fortnight  his 
stock  declines  in  value.  It  is  the  same  with 
coal,  dry  goods,   hardware,  and  every  article 

is  bought  and  sold  for  gold. 

eems  to  be  an  open  quesiion  whether  wo 

pro  and  con.  On  the  one  hand,  hollers, 
.general  ride,  are  showing  good  sense  by 
marking  down  prices,  so  as  to  anticipate  the 
future ;  while  capitalists  are  so  shy  of  business 
paper  of  the  second  and  third  grades  that  in 
the  event  of  a  heavy  decline  in  prices  the 
wrecks  would  he  fewer  than  otherwise.  On 
the  other  hand,  it  is  notorious  that  large  quan- 
tities of  produce,  cotton,  coal,  dry  goods,  hard- 


gohl, 


1   the   absence  ( 


demand  f 

iniipfitm  the  result  of  forced  sales  w< 
tncertain.  Perhaps  the  polico  rttle  in 
dy.  The  guardians  of  the  public-  pe: 
hat  a  riot  which  is  predicted  ne\cr 
tut.  So,  possibly,  a  panic  upon  which 
peculate  in  advance  is  not  likely  to  oce 


I   iltntl.    Inn. 
::ent  control 


.u-  It-cm  nuiitv. 
ml  of  man,  and 
h  in  all  its  vai-iot. 
'alien  and   rendu 


nernl.  The  Protestant  KpNcopal  Bishop  , ,  tho 
:;t'-;  the  Baptist  IV-ident  ufliimvn  University; 
fvllow-clergymnit  of  the   Presbyterian  chnn  h."  a 


CENTRAL    PACIFIC!    UAILUOAD 


by  the  State  of  r»lif 


There   i-  Mil 


Ipsa  mind 
that  of  the  bru 

tli'iangchlt.ait,  :\ 


■H...-U  »-  must 
.villi  11,0  imliviili 

11:1V    .K-.UIIllllQtO 


some  of  its  qualities  from 


ion  in  that  r 


say  : 


ading  director  of  the 
d  the  stock  of  that  in 
is  io  per  cent,  highi 

as  137.  Another  clique.  Ice 
rector  of  the  Rock  Island  Rai 
p  the  stock  of  that  coiiceni,  ; 


que,   led  by 
ailway,  is  buying 
corporator 


,  and  it  is  12  per 
it.  higher  than  it  was  when  gold  was  139. 
other  clique,  led  by  the  leading  director  of 
■  Michigan  (Southern,  is  buying  up  the  stock 
that  unproductive  enterprise,  and  it  is  II  per 
it.  higher  than  it  was  when  gold  was  i38. 
uit  the  calculation  of  these  various  cliques 
y  be,  it  were  vain  to  conjecture.  Published 
orts  inform  us  that  the  earnings  of  these 
ds  have  been  tailing  off  steadily  for  three 


in  of  merchandise,  th 
hroughout  the  year. 
,  there  is  nothing  to 


Still,  money 
prevent  a  pro'- 

iy  up  ;  the  in- 

these  cliques 
ropose  to  reap 
manured  and 


HUMAN  LIABILITY  TO  DISEASE. 


t  first  thought  seems 


ion  be  made  in  regard  t 
;ho  control  of  man,  an 

They  are  by  ao  mean 


r  animals,  when  both  are 
al  influences.     \Vh 
tot  alone  adequate 

that  there  are  ma 


DOMESTIC   INTELLIGENCE. 

l/<HYAfl:  CONGRESS.      . 

'""".!  in  c'uliii''  !,m'|   mlhii  l",'""l""v°  Mi   "1,,ri  r"r  ,l(,r  (1*- 


Conuiiiil.'i'  .in  !;<:,,>„  i, 

]>!IH-:P.]_^!t   t«.l!>— Ihllt 

l»ylhi..t,r_.myoll].-ril,-l 


U  declared  to  bQ  i;i'"- 


iv,-  iust-i.il  „ftj  ■.,..!  cxlivilir-o 
\W  will   Iwivly  ::U!.:t-c,(.   fire 

here  is  not  more  of  tli-.-ase  io 
ild  minimis,  and  litentiso  th- 
■].-    hillnr-nc-  and  control  of  i 


1  cry  0.111   fitution  <,f  man  .1   i. 

■'titer  w-uil,.  that  he.  math-  I  In 
id,  and  not  a  healthy  one-a 
there  i.  nut  the  ;-liy;hlc  .1  pi 
d  instinctively  rejects.     Th- 


omphsh  a  vastly  greater 
upposed.  It  has  the  pow 
arge  proportion  of  the  dise 
mman  family — all  or  near! 


CHRISTIAN  CHARITY. 


"I  II,..  I;,,  I,,,,    ity  a  i,.'o'\  l'iil,'.i|  Hi.-  |'m,  l,'nl'u!!L.i,ih! 

t.lHn.  IV.vin'.V.'j,''i,\"  UvMmV.ip,.^^^ 


rt-venui'.     To  «lio\v  lln,t.  tin,   l:,.,  i  ,„■,-.,  iiv  Tn-uLv  »„,',,.,[, 

Il.IviltltllCe.Hlrt    t.l    H-,    it.     IV«:I     l....ti|i,.(|     („   ~\,y    |  [,„     Hrtll.'Nlll'U 

Mlin.'.l   ttn-Miiprli  a   .-..lli.-i..!,   iu,i.,i„;  .■:,,;,.,  ",,(„)  ,.,„'  |h,.nill..} 

;"lii,n  '"'i'l\y  '••■•  <-"'|,j'  "i >■■'■  1 [.ii.it..i:  i  J.Vo,,! 

'■"ev,     IhO     111.'    I'h.lIM,-.        ,1 ,|     |„.    ,.,„,,.    („,,. Vl,r_    1„,    ,|,     I 


"'"'>';     i'1    "'■'"  '   ''■■'! 'I    ,    I -  j'IT-i  ,.,|    I,,   |„|-..   , .|,    ljrr, 

'"■*   '■""h   "'" rl-y  ,.]■  ,„    „. rc-(,;,i;„.,.;    I.ul   li,-l..r. 

""'    '"l '"  l"'  'ill-H.-,l  =  ■  P  ■  ■  r  -  ■  i-  r.  -  ,.l    \  J . ..  - r.  j.n.iln.i 

HieiMi-.il.1-   1,1.1    tl..    I .-Ill    ,.i!|,   :,    ,,!!.>,,,,,..,[   „|    [,,,    ,    ,, 

'---VmrlffiliS 

i|ll.'lt,.|l,     1.11,1     in, I     .,.    [,:Oi,-N.-,l     ..,!,■,    ),.,.|    ,..,,    I, 

^"w    KfiL-lun.l   in. 11  I |„i,li:.t,.   tin-  jne^ure 

!>■■■  ,1 it   Inn!   liven    mi   1, -,,!.■  ■  ■■,(■  .1.       ||,  n,,|'l,.r  „.rr   „'ii- 


.■■.,■",     "  liifr  ■    |.,.|..,|    in    th..    l.ill,    ;i„.|    .,,),   Ul',,1,,,.-    ,■,,;], 

action  in  the  United  Statea  Court,  with  d fe  00  1 


„-,,  lite  civil   l,i,M     l.il 


First  Congregational  Uni 


iracter  of  Dr.  II.i 

ears  yettlcil  over  1 


in  the   p.i  toral  1 


[Mabce  24, 


Conscience  Wli 
■u  in  Massachusetts  of  wli.,...   - 
nei,,  HoiiACF.  Mann.  Jons  G.  1'ai.fi.o,  bAJirei 
G.  Howe,  and  KtcHAP.0  H.  Dana,  J»-;,.r?.C." 

spicuous  leaders,  v 

panionship  of  Websieu,  Everett,  Choate, 


March  24, 


HAEPEE'S  WEEKLY. 


Wdtthrop,  and  supported,  in  1848,  the  Buffalo 
Free-soil  candidates,  M.uitin  Van  Burls  and 
Charles  Francis  Adams.  The  schism  was  final, 
and  from  that  moment  the  Boston  Whig  leadership 


j  Charixs  SoaiHBfl 
rER's  seal,  and  he  accepted  the  office, 
i  nomination,  without  a  single  pledge 


States  a  young  man,  perfectly  familiar  with  inter- 
national law  and  with  the  history  and  literature  of 
all  countries;  with  a  thorough  knowledge  of  tho 
details  of  the  anti-slavery  movement,  and  a  pro- 
found conviction  that  the  insolent  and  dangerous 
determination  of  the  Slave  Power  was  the  great  peril 
of  the  nation.  His  fame  had  preceded  him,  and  he 
was  not  welcome  in  a  body  which  the  spirit  of  Cal- 
houn controlled.  Senators  like  Jf.fi-t.rson  Davis, 
who  prevailed  by  audacity,  or  like  Douolas,  who 
despised  the  moral  sentiment,  affected  to  sm-cr  at 


Law  of  1850,  and  tl 
assault  upon  the  Slave  Power  in  tho  debates  upi 
the  Missouri  Compromise,  apprised  these  men  ai 
the  country  that  there  was  one  Senator  at  least  wh 
standing  upon  the  broad  ground  of  moral  right,  w 
equally  at  home  upon  every  inch  of  tho  Constit 

of  bis  associates.  Personally  of  the  kh.ik-st  hc\i 
and  most  polished  manners,  he  dkdaim>il  social  en 
ciliation  of  his  political  adversaries;  and  his  opp 


spirit  of  Lil.crry,  whuh  lb.-  >l  ,m- 
leaders  knew  to  lie  i h.-:r  most  dangerous  foo.  On 
tho  19th  and  2fJtli  of  May,  [<n\,  Mi  Smsi..:  de- 
livered a  speech  upon"  The  Crime  a;,'.tm-t  Kai;-a\" 
which  was  unanswerable.  In  the  course  of  .(  he 
spoke  satiricallv  of  .Senator  Urn  i:n,  of  Small  C.u - 
olina,  and  on  the  afternoon  of  the  22d,  while  Mr. 
Sumner  was  writing  at  his  desk,  he  ^.-is  .is>.mlu-J 
by  Preston  S.  Brooks,  a  Representative  from 
South  Carolina,  and  I  c.i: ■•::  uroi,  the  h-ad  with  a 
heavy  gutta  percha  cane  until  be  fell  senseless. 

It  was  four  year-  before  Mr.  Scvsi  u  returned 
to  the  Senate.  During  that  time  be  was  subj.  ct  to 
constant,  often  to  the  severest,  mee.i.d  h.-atiiii-iil 
at  homo  and  in  Europe.  While  still  di>ai>l.-.|  the 
Massachusetts  Legislature  re-elected  bun  to  hi-.  >i  :.* 
by  a  unanimous  vote  in  tho  Senate  and  by  a  vote 
of  several  hundreds  to  seven  in  the  House.  Mas- 
sachusetts felt  that  while  her  Senator  was  yet  strug- 
gling for  Life  his  empty  chair  was  a  more  i  loq  lent 
Representative  than  any  other  man  could  be.  In 
the  session  of  1859-00  Mr.  Somber  resumed  his 
seat,  and  his  first  important  speech  -truck  the  key- 
note of  his  Congressional  life  and  exposed 
Barbarism  of  Slavery.' 


beginning  c 


In  tho  canvass  for  Presi- 

ar  lie  ucu.ired  us  -  main-spring" 
that  there  could  bo  no  peace  un- 
i  by  emancipation.     This  policy 


ial  weight  from  hi-;  p<-.Mii..ei 
enate  Committee  upon  Foreig 
Mr.  Sumner's  political  cam 


■I'lTi'.' 


)ni-i'..n.inu' 

iw  reached,  and  in  which  political 
soesscntialiLinl  powerful,  poliricM 
differences  are  apt  to  appear  to  him  as  moral  delin- 
quencies.    Immutably  fixed  in  his  own  clear  per- 

achievements  of  the  great  American  principle  of 
Equal  Rights,  he  seems  anxious  to  secure  at  once, 
by  acts  of  Congress,  results  which  can  be  better  at- 
tained by  other  and  higher  laws.  But  in  his  un- 
"  ;  desire  that  the  faith  of  the  United 
3  kept  with  the  Freedmen,  and  that 
"a  the  effort  to  i.le-trcy 


the  Government  shall  not  be  allow 

he   has  the  hearty  sympathy 


Mr.  Sumner.  His  literary  style  is  stately  and 
scholastic.  Each  of  his  speeches  is  an  exhaustive 
treatise  upon  its  subject.  His  oratory  \$  declama- 
tory rather  than  colloquial  or  rhetorical.  A  certain 
dogmatism  of  stylo  both  in  writing  and  speaking 
may  be  easily  traced  to  his  intense  personal  con- 
dtothcBol^rtimes.inde^entsaiiiiil  t 
moved.  But  his  chief  fame  will  be 
who,  during  the  maturing  of  a  terri- 
'  against  human  rights,  stood  as  firm 
ustice  as  a  light-house  in  the  fury  of  a 


flcrcforo  the  best  policy.  The  concluding  words 
f  his  late  speech  are  the  true  motto  of  his  life. 
And  now,  declaring  mv  belief  in  Libertv  and 
Iquality  as  the  God.given  birth-right  of  all  men, 


INSIDE. 

A  CHRONICLE  OF  SECESSION. 
By  Ge 


<\.ii:i:!i  v 


<•]    licmxicy. -in 


Why  i 


cop  by,  it  is  very 
rtained  in  Some: 


t   again    I'm  m  C.:n:,rli  l,U 


nying  there  at  Corinth  for  ? 
people  arc  beginning  impatiently  to  ask. 

Like  many  another  military  idol  of  the  time, 
before  him  and  after  him,  Beauregard  is  slowly 
waning  in  public  estimation.  Good  Mr.  Ellis 
thanks  God  for  it.  "The  career  of  any  one 
General,  like  Napoleon,  in  our  cause,"  he  avows, 
"  would  be  fatal  to.  our  liberties.  We  wish  vic- 
tory to  be  won  for  ns  in  such  a  way  that  to  no 
one  man,  but  to  the  whole  people,  and  to  God 
above  all,  the  glory  may  redound."  Certain  it 
is,  though  there  wcro  ever  so  many  just  on  4ho 
point  of  becoming  the  Marions,  the  Washing- 
tons,  the  Napoleons  of  the  war,  in  some  way  or 
other  each  just  missed  it  as  by  a  hair's-brcadlli, 
but  mi--ed  it  altogether. 

But  the  Yankees  arc  even  approaching  Cor- 
inth. Lnmum  fills  the  Somemlle  Star  with  ample 
reasons  why.    Beauregard  is  hatching  some 


Corinth,  and 
and  that  he  will  be 
sinking  hearts  in 


However, 

Island  No.  10.  It  has  been  made  a  perfect 
Gibraltar.  It  is  fully  demonstrated  that  the  pas- 
sage of  that  Island  in  the  Mississippi  River  by 
the  Federal  fleet  is  an  absolute  impossibility. 
Every  Number  of  the  Somcrville  Slur  exults  in 
the  laughnble  notion  of 
i  be  passed.    And  so  for 


"Island  Ten,"  and  in 
the  Yankees  that  it  ca 
weeks ;  slow  as  the  firsi 
the  rumor  gets  afloat 


t  Island  Ten  has  been 


rfrom  the  first  had  any  i 


cr  highly  favorable  to  the  Confederacy.  Steadi- 
ly as  the  days  rolled  by  were  his  prophecies  un- 
fulfilled and  bis  statements  disproved,  yet  you 
would  never  gather  a  syllable  to  that  effect  from 
his  paper.  And  no  render  thereof  filed  away 
eacli  Number  of  the  Star  for  future  reference  as 
carefully,  or  with  such  deep  satisfaction,  as  did 
Mr.  Ferguson. 

Lnmum  had  remarked:  "  If  our  gallant  heroes 
should  evacuate  Columbus,  it  will  he  only  to  make 
a  more  impregnable  stand  at  Island  Ten. "  Long 
after  Island  Ten  was  evacuated  Lamum  casu- 


fear.  "Deluded  by  their  frenzied  leaders  they 
dream  even"— Lamum  was  frequently  observing 
in  his  paper—  "of  capturing  New  Orleans!"  If 
Colonel  Juggins  read  Lnnimu's  full  and  enthu- 
siastic description  of  Fort  Jackson  and  Port  St. 
Philip,  and  the  other  Gibraltar*  by  which  New 
Orleans  was  secured  from  the  possibility  of  being 
taken,  once,  he  read  it  a  dozen  times.  The  boom 
Lv.-iii--  millions,  oi  dullnr.s  stretching  nereis  the 


r  below  the  fo 

s  to  him 

n  wnste.  of 

And  then, 

the  L'l./.mtic  MeiiuiMiii  .l.nil.l- 

ii>| 

w  Oilcans  to  das! 

ili.-  IY.I.i.,1 

thet  i.l.iml  (h.-v  hiul  a—m 

en 

v';n 

L  :111111m 

!";'■;•" 

,!."i','"',\v 

:ivil  ..1 

Mil  slll|l  III' 

III      li.i.l 

.... 

.i.l 

IS  It  IS  10 

the  city. 

..mill  ilriiv 

"  From  the  tips  of  their  horns  to  the  points  of 
their  cloven  feet,"'  interrupted  the  lawyer.  "And 
the  people  are  slowly  but  steadily  finding  them 
out:  it  is  a  lesson  being  very  slowly  learned, 
but  onco  learned  it  will  never  be  forgotten  on 
'bi-  continent  forever. " 

"  Unless  I  greatly  mistake  the  South  is  learn- 

thoughtful  pause.  "God  is  causing  m  to  read 
over  again,  beneath,  the  blazing  torch  of  his 
providence,  other  matters  in  which  I  for  one 
wa>  a-  thoroughly  settled  and  satisfied  as  any 
man  could  be.  Wu  will  not  speak  upon  that 
matter  jn-t  now— let  us  wait  and  sec." 

"We  will  sco  one  day,"  the  lawyer  remarked, 
"the  wonderful  dealing  of  the  Almigbtv  with  us 
in  permitting  this  war  to  linger  so  long.  Sup- 
pose Manassas  had  resulted  the  other  way,  the 
Confederacy  been  crushed  in  tho  bud,  it  would 
!'.:-m'!ic.ii  ii  uu-u-  victory  ,,f  force— nothing  else. 
There  would  have  been  nothing  of  n  radical  cure 
''-   -   il,  nothing  safe,  and  permanent   after- 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[March  24,  1866. 


tin-  peril  beciin 
those  days,  to  |» 


.•■!,.,«■  h 


nnuing  those  views 
m,  often  speaking  an; 

1  unaided,  by  himself 


■VtheTitesiVciBiu- 
sidu  the  blockade.     By 

Ling  and  acting  in  direct 
■  '     s;  thinking, 

I.. I     llill,:  L  H. 
Il|rl      3  j .  ■     lie!. I 


>     I   '!■! 'I      be        1,'nlu'l-i   ,     L.I.,     I 


ceipt  of  salary  in  somo 

num.     Koi.er, 

is  a  Co 

federate  States  Senatl 

ing  of  the  Confederate 

aws;  TimLan 

i,i.  La 

lissary ;  Colonel  Jugg: 

thousands  by  his  eon 

n;  Dr.  Peel 

act   for  beef; 

s    nuik. 

nu  Mm, s  is  clerk 

Morale  ('..lii'l;   nnd  Hob  Withers. is  , 

1'ax  C 

Keeeiver  ,,1'  C 

onfiscat 

s  a  Colonel  or 

(Juart. 

master.    Bribe?     On 

h.i.I  nothing  .■ 

to;  my  best  friends  wi 

1  iiai.lly  speak 

ome. 

Mrs.  Sorcl,  ki 


)e  to  feci  antf  eee  It.  The  strong 
uiside  of  hb  church  had  long  since 
loubt  from  bis  mind  in  regard  to 
jfhis  uositiou.     Colonel  Ket  Kob- 


*  also  Colonel  of  a  regi 


..      S.  I.i-ilti<-; 


m  of  the  one  Mrain  of  glory  «■  tin-  South 
highest,  on  crib  «iir  to  the  ki.il.-,  and 
ill-uili  lo  ihf  Viink.-t..  iiii-ri  got'.rhurch 

lint  imirli  in.. i, hi- ..f'-d  in   :«   'aUsc  in 


ig  ..mil  service,  li 

t  Richmond  requi 
er  pastor  preach ; 
'  abuse  ng 

jiiitriiHiMii. 


...idsnlu 

ed;    but    i 

lillu-elllcl 


i  Mis.  Koberts  there  fell  away  many 
s  wannest  friends  in  days  of  old. 
ur  was  a  good  man  ;  they  had  known 


■m  the  Gospel  as  ( 
ng.     Let  us  be  as  ( 


'You  can  hardly  imagine  huw  painful  it  is 
me,"  said  Ml'.  Arthur  to  his  I'rieud  the  lawye 
one  gloomy  evening  as  they  sat  together  in  t 
study  of  the  former.     "Men  whose  esteem 


I  harshly.  Even  those  who  I 
do  fully  agree  with  me  in  my  opinions, 
'ho  wotdd  not  enter  the  churcli  if  I  pur- 


,111--    Wll    1    I  IK.'    Ull    tin'    -llVC.1 

Vnd  have  not  a  syllable  I 
when  you  arc  cursed,  as 
iili.l  ieiu-ntlj  arc.  over  S. 

.'  I."  s!  tloi."hisUdunghilL 


f  llim  whosticketh  closer  than  -, 
nd  thin  and  worn,  he  was  only  a 
as  to  lust  him  his  life— the  lesst 


-1  declare,"  s; 

o  he  so  universal 
ugly  expressed, 


opinion,  and  is  st 


I  to  fill— deliber- 
'r^eAlmighty, 


the  bishop  fills  bin  pulpit  in  his  regular  Cita- 
tion ;  and  he  always  preaches  a  sermon  full  and 
most  decided  fur  the  Confederacy— Brother  Bark- 
er over  again,  only  in  lawn  and  with  manuscript. 
But  no  wonder;  the  Bishop's  negroes  have  been 
rnnning  away  dreadfully  of  late.  His  expenses 
for  dogs  alone  in  trailing— " 

"  My  dear  Mr.  Brooks,"  interrupted  the  min- 
ister,  "do  let  us  speak  of  something  else.     A 

bishop  before  the.- 

ever  knew.     The 


culier   you    no, 

Hi;,ll:rcJ     hllll, 

us.     There  wa 


political  matters.  And  now  !  Would  Paul, 
would  Peter,  would  Heber,  Simeon  of  Oxford, 
Wcslev,  Whitfield,  Villetoii,  Daniel  Baker  do 
it  were  they  now  alive  ?  Would  the  .Saviour  do 
it  did  he  to-day— if  such  a  thing  can  be  imag- 
ined—walk  the  soil  of  North  or  South?  To  me 
the  .wt/e  the  minister  happens  to  be  on  is  a  mere 
nothing  in  comparison  ;  it  is  his  abandoning  the 
Gospel  that  is  his  deadly  sin,  whether  he  preach 
Secession  or  preach  the  Federal  Union.  I  feel 
to-day  as  if  I  had  somehow  become  suddenly 
"  the  whole  world  hud  p..    .d   by 


"And  you  are,"  said  the  Kcntuckian,  "be- 
ind  the  times?      Yes,  Sir,   eighteen  hundred 
ears!     But  Paul  says  it  is  the  richest  thing  in 
he  world— that  Union  minister  standing  up  in 
he  pulpit,  as  he  has  to  do  once  every  two  or 
luce  months,  reading  long  pastoral  I  -------  ' 

,  political  v 


ailed  there  next.     Of  t 


.lent    than 


■  "iuor.-bu 
nal  pamaf 


.as  niilv  the  fatter  for  it 

i|.iu  as'ilie  Duelo!  ..as  bv 
in.l    got    into   the   habit   ut 

.i.l.ui  Mn.selr'  llie.-e  Jays,  ; 
.an.le.l  11, ell  I.,  make  room 
■•What  I  regret,  ul.at  ll 


i  the  Doctor  was,  he 
.11.  In  fact,  beaten 
he  eternal  gusts,  he 
retiring  completely 
nd  his  body  had  ex- 
for  him. 


,,..l,-„l- 

I;  .1.1,.' 

iiom    Fr 
It  was  a 

i  ,i;,.l.,m.n 

d    and    Mr. 

Vrtlnir 

bome 

lev.-.      The  1 

itthi-.  1, 

and  J: 

-.  Do.vle- 

.■iv  ..1  1 

have 

iianae.'.l 

Sorel  is  s 

elln.v,  f, 

and  his  book  ai 

the  arrangement. 

propriety 

read  these  lines, 

<|.iTlel„ 

i  herein  implied.    >'ot  u  day  hut  Edward  Ar- 


he  would  only  say  so — only  he  is  one  of  those 
men  who  never  will  speak  out  as  he  ought— is, 
that  you  do  not  pray  for  the  Confederacy  as  yon 
should,  Mr.  Arthur,"  said  Mis.  Warner  to  that 
gentleman,  sitting  in  her  parlor  this  last  time. 
"  If  you  do  not  feel  prepared  to  preach  sermons 
for  the  Confederacy  and  in  denouncement  of 
the  Yankees,  like  Brother  Barker  and  ever  so 
many  ministers  more,  well,  you  needn't  do  it— 
that  is,  if  you  can  feel  it  in  your  conscience  ool 
to  do  so ;    though  I  am  sure  our  revolutionary 

into  the  pulpits  with  them.  But  why  don't  you 
pray  for  the  Confederacy— pray  for  it  warm  anc 
strong?  There's  Brother  Barker— and  he  t 
Northern  man  too!— he  prays  every  Sunday, 
I'm  told  by  Mrs.  Staples,  that  the  Almighty  wil 
defeat,  destroy,  annihilate  the  Federals;  thai 
He  will  entrap  them  in  snares,  deceive  them  ir 
policy,  decimate  them  with  measles,  small-pox. 
and  yellow-fever;    not  leave  enough,  of  then 

rest !  Pray  ?  yes,  and  for  their  eternal  damna- 
tion too.  They  are  fiends,  they  are  devils,  they 
are  worse  than  the  worst  savages;  they  richly 
deserve  the  agonies  of  the  pit !  Why,  b 
it,  Dr.  War— I  mean  Mr.  Arthur!     Thi 


hang  you  some  d; 
it  people  have,  thr 
>u.     Ain't  you  afn 

1'd  Mr.  Arthur 
to  the  arms  of 

of  the  canal  lo 
him— sat  waiting  till 


And  juit  suppose  they  was 
ly  ;  you  may  not  know  it, 

..■.iti'rjvl  long  ago  to  bang 
lid?  You  know  they  have 
And  oh,  how  much*  much 

sat,  holding,  instinctive],, 
the  large  parlor  rocling. 
at— sat  while  the  uprated 
icks  poured  their  tide  upon 
e  gush  would  flow  itself 


Mrs. 


Yarner  went  on,  taking  snuff 

stu  I;  energetically  all  the  time. 
,e  -null'  which  -lie'so  copiously  dipped  U 
Warner's  only  cause.  Last  night  an- 
ihose  wretched  letters,  written  to  some 
oinerrille— nohod\  knows  whom — from 
y  near  Corinth,,  has  announced  that 
aid  has  actually  evacuated  Corinth,  and 
ing  South  in  confusion  !  But  a  day  or  so 
lore  had  been  a  well-authenticated  t*- 
lomerville  that  Beauregard  had  ordered 
■to  prepare  for  an  immediate  move  upon 
ny.  Lamum  had  filled  the  last  Star 
the  thrilling  address  of  Beauregard  to 
ers  before  the  great  victory  that  was  to 
enthusiasm  of  his  array  ;  the  utter  de- 
tiou  of  the  Federals  j  the  whole  regi- 
tat  had  already  been  shot  in  the  Union 

.villingiie-s  of  the  troops,  Yankees  though 
c,  to  fire  another  shot  upon  the  Confed- 

>efnl  as  wc  have  always  been  in  regard  to 
t  Corinth,"  said  Lamum,  "we  are  now 
i  great  and  glorious  vic- 
which  we  will  give  in 
Slowly  but  steadily  has  Beauregard 
u  maturing  his  brilliant  plant 
i  limn  Corinth  agrees  that  t 
on-  iii  faying  has  doubtles: 


'full    pai 


nder-bolt 


era  men  in  advance  upon  the  great  victory.  As 
to  the  wretched  traitors  among  us,  let  them  know 
their  day  of  doom  is  at  hand  ('  '—and  vastly  more 

But  one  of  those  miserable  letters  has  arrived, 
saying  that  all  Beauregard's  preparations  were  not 

diate  march  either  on  St.  Louis  or  Chicago,  as 
Lamum  and  all  others  had  so  confidently  pre- 
dicted, but  for  a  hasty  retreat— a  retreat  under 
the  fire  of  the  Yankees— and  leaving  behind  in- 
numerable deserters.  And,  somehow,  in  ten 
hours  after  the  arrival  in  Somerville  of  the  let- 
ter, every  body  knows  its  contents — believes 
them  too,  no  matter  what  they  may  say ;  past 
experiences  have  taught  Somerville  pretty  thor- 
oughly by  this  time  that,  amidst  the  perpetual 
rumors  afloat,-  the  rumors  favorable  to  the  Con- 
federacy are  almost  invariably  false,  and  the 
rumors  of  an  unfavorable  nature  as  invariably 
true — or,  at  least,  too  near  true  to  be  comforta- 
ble.    Those  wretched  letters!     Nothing  could 


into  before  it  could  be  decided  whether  their 
owners  are  to  have  them  or  not.  Faithfully  did 
Mr.  Smithers,  the  postmaster,  obey  these  in- 


who  had  reference  i 


These  foolish  1    '      ' 

j  seats  of  the  war  by  people 


lining  theConfed- 


i  nurse  and  protract  thereby.  The  con- 
steadily  running  contrast,  between  the 
information  from  the  seats  of  the  war 
idercurrent  of  private  information  from 
sources  was  amazing.  Between  the 
ams  of  public  and  of  private  ini-lli- 
■  air  was  always  filled  with  all  sous  of 

is  with  the  flying  froth  of  conflicting 


t-ight  a 


'  drops  in  upon  Gu1 
uld  not  have  mvm' 
ierstand,"  Dr.  Wat 


inoii.l  ha...  been  taken.     Of  c 


.;:.! 


free;   they  ar< 

In' oar  Mood! 


.-Yankees  succeed  ; 


Lamum,  and  all 
poor,  downcast,  i 
Arthur.    Every  t 


a  dagger:  if  they 
rst  Yankee  that  en- 
£  ?  I  tell  you,  Doc- 
down  my  house  with 
should  have  it.     I'd 


Yankees  get  them, 
r  says,  Dr.  Peel  too, 


■  earnestly  logcthei 


ance  to  what  Sam  Peters  says,  but  it  really  looks 
as  if  the  leading  Secessionists  were  contempla- 
ting a  speedy  flight,  taken  in  connection  with 
the  other  report  from  another  source,  you  ob- 
serve!" and  the  mild  Doctor  wi].es  his  perspiring 
forehead,  from  which  the  hair  is  being  blown 
away  so  in  his  high  winds  at  home ;  quite  bold 

"  I  pay  no  attention  to  such  things,"  says  Guy 

Brooks,  with  brightening  eyes,  "  but  it  may  seem 

somewhat  of  a  coincidence;  the  Seccssioni 


Psh 


awMt^Xnc 


other  suddenly  coming  in  upon  M 

r  children  around  her.   She  had  jusi 
rpretation  is,  from  Roberts  at  Kit 


:  kept  bo  completely  in  the  dark- 


March  24,  1866.] 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 


iaking  all  these  things  together.  Ah,  well,  we 
Shall  know  sooner  or  later,"  says  Dr.  Warner, 
shaking  his  head  as  he  considers  it  all  over. 

"And  so  Dr.  GinDis  is  running  off  with  some 
of  your  patients  ?"  inquires  the  lawyer  at^ast. 

"  Such  a  loud  Secessionist,  you  know.    I  can 


nd  feel 


ifort 


'It  is  all  mvr  Sum- 

erville  ;  people  really  believe  it,"  said  Mr.  Fergu- 
son. And  he  was  right.  Only  wish  to  believe 
any  thing,  it  is  the  easiest  thing  to  do  so.  "  It 
may  be  true,  you  know,"  said  the  Scotchman, 
before  he  had  done  referring  to  it ;  always  scoff- 

"  Do  you  see  this  port-folio  ?"  asked  the  Scotch- 
man of  a  ponderous  scrap-book  lying  open  upon 
his  table,  with  covers  of  blue  pasteboard  a  yard 
square  ;  half  a  foot  thick  the  volume  is.  And  he 
turned  lovingly  over  the  irregular  leaves— pam- 
phlets, speeches,  sermons,  placards,  hand-bills, 
written  notices  of  all  shapes  and  sizes,  newspa- 
pers, too,  from  a  yard  across  down,  toward  the 
later  dates,  to  sheets  of  eight  inches,  and  of  all 
the  colors  of  the  rainbow,  according  as  wrapping 
paper  was  being  resorted  to  under  stress  of  the 
blockade.     "  Now,  here  is  a  complete  set  of  the 


i  begin 


■  -i  11111:4  iIkjmj  lands.  I  have 
tot  a  rood,  for  paper-money. 
So  I  have  a  good  deal  of  leis- 
ure lu spend  on  this  collection.  When  a  ni moi- 
ls afloat  unprint'd,  I  write  ii  out  myself  ami 
pa-.k'  ii  in;"  and  he  turned  in  succession  m  sev- 
eral pages  Of  his  own  writing  carefully  inter- 
leaved with  the  rest  ni'  I. he  ponderous  volume, 
his  best  hand  it  was  in,  and  with  date  in  full  to 
each  rumor,  and   plenty  of  capitals  and  marks 


"A  glass  of  usquebaugh  to  those  who  < 
his  pastor.     "Now  I  have  even  classified  t 


laying  his  hand  upon  it.  "I  have  almost  no- 
thing else  to  do:  and  1  have  become  interested  in 
it  as  a  systematic  study  of  this  war,  and  of  hu- 
man nature  during  it.     Would  you  like  to  hear 

my  claudication?" 

The  Scotchman  had  a  grizzled  heard  covering 
all  his  month,  and  a  dry,  didaene  wav  of  -peak- 
ing, with  his  chin  fixed  steadily  between  his 
shirt  collar,  and  in  crisp  sentences.  He  walked 
wiih  a  siiif.  short  step,  never  turning  his  head 
right,  or  left,  favoring  his  iivs!  iuiiinate  friend-; 
wiili  the  slightest  possible  motion  of  his  head, 
strictly  up  and  down  on  its  vertebra?,  never  a 
shade  in  one  side  or  the  other,  when  he  met  them. 
It  had  often  occurred  to  Mr.  Arthur  that.  .Mr. 
l'V,. _ni,. n.  if  lihnM  If  classified,  would  have  been 

labeled  of  the  I, in),. 1  ".v  species — a  botaui;.l  earing 
for  llov.-cisonlv  for  analysis,  without  the  slighter. 
j  their  hue  or  fragrance* 
)  beginning 


■  'I')'  1 


!.  lecturer, 


as  follows : 

"  First — The  Confederacy  is  on  the  verge  of 
recognition  by  Europe.  I  have  put  this  first,  as 
being  the  most  frequently  repeated  and  the  most 


Sleml.K 

"Si 


farthest.     This  ' 


st  than  it  has  been  of  late. 
'  Third— A  great  revolution  favorable  to  the 
South  i-.  impending  at  the  North. 

"  Fourth — France,  England,  and  Spain  have 
determined  upon  an  instant  armed  intervention 
unless  their  terms  are  agreed  upon  by  the  end 
of  this  month;  and  the  papers  all  contain  these 
terms,  drawn  fully  out,  article  by  article,  in 
diplomatic  style. 


Kuer.d  army  a.eamM  fhc  accursed  scheme  i 
which  ihev  have  been  hounded.' 

"Sixth— Great  and  glorious  victories,  with 
slaughter  of  half  of  the  Federal  army  and 
capture  of  the  other  half,  stores,  arms, 
beyond  calculation.  To  the  same  head  ueiongs 
the  repeated  capture  of  Washington  city. 

"Last— The  arrival,  'at  last,'  of  the  Confed- 
erate fleet,  iron-plated,  fully  armed,  from  Eu- 
'     '    pending  destruction  of  the  Fed- 
h  are  the  classes  of  rumors,  one 
h  are  continually  afloat.    Itmat- 


Ithei 


—now  by  pneumonia,  now  by  wounds,  now  by  .he 
band  of  some  brave  Southerner  penetrating  into 
Ins  camp  tor  the  purpose— of,  in  turn,  every  lead- 
ing officer  of  the  Federal  army.  Perpetually 
arc  they  being  killed  and  buried.  If  ihc\  are 
j.ei-peiual!>  ii-ing  again  from  the  dead  it  makes 
no  difference.     If  they  are  proved  t    ' 

I    died    .re,  ill    in 

not  a  single  on 
down  here,"  said  the  Scotchman  with  pride. 
"It  is  amazing  how  readily  the  report  of  yes- 


Vcsterday's  news  is   forgottci 


1  is  so  unfailing.  Oue  t 
thiscontiiiu.il  stream  of  i 
the  working  of  the  1 


is  my  studying 

er>  of  thi.'  most  disastrous  deltl 
paid  pyrotechnist  of  a  Fourth  of  July  night,  the, 
see  to  it,  out  of  sight  themselves,  that  som 
rocket  is  always  in  the  air  to  keep  the  gapin, 
populace  amused.  They  have  such  a  supply  t 
select  from,"  said  Mr.  Ferguson,  laying  Ins  broa> 
and   hairy  palm  011   his  foolscap  classification 


when  all  the  i 

for  Secession,  then,  and  exactly  the 
and  most  splendid  lie  is  whizzing  1 
comes  down  a  stick,  to  he  sure ;  b 
the  purpose  of  the  moment,  and, 


it  wae  all  only  a  whim-ev 
son.  Like  multitudes  o 
iman  ascribed  ti 

■ver  even  dreamed  of  doing   they  had  all 


thought  the  miiii-ier.  T 
ocean  into  tempest,  he  s: 
rode  slowly  home  to  Mrs. 


■;■ ,'.:' 


sparkle  with  all  phosphc 


first   hour  or 


Morpheus,   presided  over   I 
her?     During  tho  first  ho 

the  wild  1 


gling  1 


ought    it    into 
d     heave    and 

»  by  the  force 

cd,  Mais,  not 
lhers.     Slum- 


hotiom  of  ocean  miles  beneath  his 
et.  The  waters  around  him  are  thick 
;n  and  women  clutching  at  and  hurled 
off  from  each  other,  the  drowning  and  the 
drowned.  How  red  they  are,  too,  the  waters 
slimy  and  clinging,  so  that  he  can  hardly  even 
struggle  in  them.  How  many  upturned  faces 
rise  and  sink  there!  Can  that  bold  brow  with 
the  large-set  eyes  be  Colonel  Ret  Roberts  ?  The 
thin  face  of  the  postage  stamps  jostled  cheek  by 
jowl  with  Bob  Withers's  ruby  countenance  and 
the  pale  cheek  of  Lamum  ?  Horror !  There 
floats  by  him  a  fair  form,  every  lock  of  whoso 
streaming  hair  is  dearer  to  him  than  life,  thrust 
aside  by  the  sudden  countenance  of  Colonel  Jug- 
gins, giving  place  to  that  of  Mrs.  Juggins;  and 
amidst  all  tho  gurgling,  gasping  terror  the  dream- 
er hears  as  from  her  lips,  "What  I  say  is,  why 
can't  they  stay  where  they  come  from?  We 
warn't  interruptin'  them  that  I  know  of,"  and 
the  sleeper  is  awakened  by  his  owu  laughter. 

"Look  here,  my  friend,"  he  reasons  with  him- 
self, "  along  this  way  madness  lies."  He  is  right 
there.  Only  give  up  to  the  thoughts  pressing 
like  the  Fumeuides  after  you  just  now,  and  you 
are  in  the  highway  to  whitened  hair  and  brow 
prematurely  wrinkled,  and  insanity  and  suicide. 
Millions  at  the  South  are  on  that  path  now,  suf- 
fering along  all  its  degrees.  Sleeplessness?  For 
the  first  year  of  the  war  men  could  not  sleep  o' 
nights  for  the  horror  of  the  thing.  However,  as 
nature  creates,  they  say,  a  sort  of  integument,  a 
callous  membrane  about  a  bullet  lodged  in  the 
body,  so  there  grew  a  kind  of  covering,  a  cal- 


With  solemn  resolve  to  go  to  sleep,  Mr.  Ar- 
thur, after  pacing  the  floor  an  hour  or  so  in 
forming  it,  lay  down  again.     He  is  just  getting 


Nuiih   Christian  men   and 

are  as  frantic,  rabid,  raving, 
thirsty  lor  the  Right,  as  Brot 

About  his  three-hundredth  turn  at  the 
3  end  opposite  his  bed  the  idea 

abreast,  and  halts  him  there  for 
ind  isn't  this  just  the  process,  you 
poor  creature,  by  which  the  whole  land,  North 
and  South,  is  being  prepared,  through  the  deep 
"  '  church,  for  the  greatest  re- 
land  and  the  world  has  ever 
an't  you  see  it,  on  the  heel. 


RATS  AND  MICE. 

Pfruaps  few  persons  are  aware  bow  many  kinds 

of  the  ravages  they  will  commit.  It  is  a  curious 
and  interesting  fact  that  in  many  cases  where  mice 
have  increased  to  a  great  extent  in  com  or  grass 


Kites,  hawks,  owls,  magpies,  jays,  and  crows, 
well  as  stoats,  weasels,  foxes,  etc.,  may  then  t 
found  in  great  abundance,  assembled  to  feed  . 
these  destructive  little  quadrupeds,  perhaps  in  1 


the  case.     An  emino 

visiting 

England,  came  into  a  room  accompanied  by  an  at- 
tendant, in  which  ho  saw  a  cat  suckling  two  or  thrc 
kittens.  "If  you  will  stand  quiet  fur  u  short  time 
"you  will  see  a  strange  night." 

and  begi 

that  this  was  a  circmnstmieo  of  constat 

and  oar  informant  was  so  struck  with  it  that  he  not 

only  witnessed  it  himself  on  subsequent  occasions, 

but.  Iirought  some  of  his  IViouds  to  do  80. 

An  old  gentleman  of  my  acquaintance  was  in  the 
habit  of  sitting  before  a  (ire  in  his  library,  and  doz- 
ing there  for  sc 


line,  remaining  perleelK  ,.hll. 
constant  hal.it  of  crawling  up 
011   his  knee,  and  ruhhiug  its 


cent  wuicn  they  emitted.     On  mentioning  the  cir- 
umstance  to  an  eminent  surgeon,  well  known  for 


up  the  ground  to  get  at  these  stores.    We  have  also 

In  some  of  its  habits  it  resembles  tho  squirrel,  by 

that  quadruped,  eats  its  food  in  a  sitting  posture, 

and  sleeps  like  the  squirrel  during  a  great  part  of 

the  winter.     The  dormouse  is  not  often  seen,  as  it 

bides  itself  in  woods  and  thick  hedges,  and.  accord- 

ing to  Pennant,  makes  its  nest  in  the  hollow  of  a 

:ree.     It  is,  however,  more  common  than  ia  gen- 

erally supposed. 

There  are  two  varieties  of  land  rats  in  England, 

and  one  water  rat.     Of  the  former,  the  brown  or 

Norwegian  rat  has  now  nearly  exterminated  the 

original  black  rat,  the  latter  being  now  regarded 

almost  as  a  curiosity,  although  it  is  nlhrmed  that  it 

brown  rat  is  enormous.     They  have  three  broods 

in  a  year,  generally  from  fourteen  to  eighteen  in  a 

mous,  did  they  not,  as  is  well  known,  devour  each 

ship  tlu'y  hav* 

been  witnessed  ia  tho  daytime. 
When  rats  have  devoured  all  tho  food  in  a  barn, 
They  will  migrate  i 


ducted  safely  along.      The  contrivance:,  , 

Thoy  havo  been  known  to  inaert  their  tans  into  an 

oil  flask,, and  then  lick  off  the  adhering  oil  till  the, 
ilusk  was  emptied,  or,  at  least,  till  their  tails  would 
reach  the  oil  no  longor.     It  has  also  been  ascer- 


THE  WINDOWS. 

'Mid  the  thickly  hUlw;  «"*. 


1  a  n.ij-li.uie.l  <MI.I,  with  a  radiant  face, 


With  no  friend  to  greet  . 
Where  the  blindin6  ™ 
I  watch  the  ahadoira  that 


very  great.     Iu  the  Abattoir  near  Paris,  auch  wi 


=  HAEpEPl 


fEEKLY- 


^Uamen: 


1'.  TUESDAY,  Febucabt  6,  I860. 


HARPER'S  "WEEKLY. 


[March  24,  1866. 


i   worldly  juy   nml    mir 


SETH  HATHRON'S  FODRTH. 

I  ALWAYS  was  ahlnok-brnwed,  brond-shouldr 
brntc  of  a  fellow,  always  from  a  boy.     At  sc 

school  if  "1-1  Mis-  IVggi  found  nut  any  mischief 
laid  it  to  my  score  because  of  my  looks,  when  " 
and  of  Urn,  while  I  was  holding  out  my  hand  b 
nilered,  the  prettiest  hoy  in  lhe  school  wits  grim 


.nl  her  prccomeived  uolinns 
ume,  and  I  answered  tin'  do-cri 
lor  the  matteroi'thal.ol'al]  I 


wickedness  of  Hip  book,  as  though  ] 


...   ■    .',11    Hm- 


and  a  pink  mouth  like  n  girl's.  It's  so  o 
over  again ;  bul  it's  my  opiuion  that- if  won) 
put  on  the  police,  before  t" 


hulking,  awkward,  bilious  fellow  whose  eyebrows 

met  would  be  locked  tip  in  the  State  Pnsou  on 

mother,  and  she  died  when  I  was  eight  years  old. 

So  instead  of  growing  up  with  the  idea  that  most 

in  love  with  them,  1  never  had  the  slightest  hope 

that  any  one  would  ever  like  me  well  enough  to  lot 

me  fall  in  love  with  her  even.     And  I  liked  girl-  to. 

It  was  odd  for  a  fellow  like  me,  but  how  1  did  like 
girls  J 

I  never  could  bear  to  soo  one  cry,  or  to  hoar  of 

their  being  imposed  upon  or  hurt.     I  couldn't  pass 

one  with  a  heavy  basket  or  bundle  without  at  least 

wanting  to  offer  to  carry  it  for  her.     I  could  never 

bring  myself  to  sit  in  stages  or  cars  when  one  wbb 

standing.     I  don  t  think  I  could  if  I  bad  been  weak 

I  ladies,  who  might  have  I 


jivmuei.-.  were  :„' I  .'iik!  mi 

mvtelf  only  a  working-man, 
knew   ;it  old  Mi,-.  IVl^'v's  BChooI. 

a  man  might  have  felt  just  in  s. 


families.      There  were  very  few    girl* 
uine-<  tlni  ■    h<  go  to;    for  the  village  w:is 

kin-1   "I    [>iace,  lull   of  country  seat^   and 
tin-   f.ulorv  stood  all   by  it-ell',  .mite   a 


)0  genteel  to  mix  with  them.     So 
i  place  was  always  full.      When  a 

.  down  somebody  always  had  to  be 
laldwin  to  bring  her  to  the  factory. 

,ecn    before,  and    why   1   was  chosen 

-.Iwaswill- 
.  _.,    .hen  I  had  taken 

with  tender  green  grass  on  the  earth 

-ero  only  two  or  three  fleecy  bits  of 
carded  wool,  amidst  the  blueness.  It 
If  an  hour  to  get  to  Baldwin.    I'd  have 


.1    M.liplf   O 


on  their  brightest  gown 

a  garden.     This  girl  was  a 
1  to  match.     The  things  v 


,  away  in  a  wagon;  the  clergyman  bad  a  gig 
for  him  ;  ami  I  here  I  he  girl  sal  beside  In  i  iriink, 
:ng  now  mid  then  out  of  t lie  window  ami  begui- 
le, seem  anxious.  At  all  events  il  could  do  no 
i  to  speak ;  so  I  took  off  my  hat  and  stepped  up, 


it  the  lire-"  oik  factory,"  I  said.  "Mr. 
t  me  down  lo  fetch  you.  I'm  Soth 
of  the  hand.-.     The  wagon  is  oulsido  ; 

will  you  get  in  ?— Wait  a  bit ;  I'll  put  the  trunk  in 

fi«t." 

'Shan't  I  help  yen:-'"  .he  said,  and  .-ho  pul 

t  laughing. 


things  that  would  please  her,  and  pointed  out  Ihe 
places  on  the  road,  and  felt  that,  bright,  as  the  day 
bad  been  before,  it  was  somehow  a  great  deal  bright- 
er now  with  her  beside  me. 

We  stopped  at  Mrs.  Munson's  and  said  good-by. 
I  carried  her  trunk  into  the  hall  and  called  Urn  old 
lady,  and  drove  the  horse  back  to  the  stable.  Then, 
having  a  holiday,  I  got  a  newspaper  and  went  out 
into  lhe  woods— Baldwin's  Woods  they  called  them 
—and  I  think  I  knew  every  tree  by  heart. 

1  sat  down  by  chance  under  a  great  oak,  where 
Jack  Vame,  one  of  the  bands,  had  carved  J.  V.  for 
his  name,  and  O.  G.  for  Olive  Grey's,  and  had  put 
a  ring  around  them  both ;  and  as  I  looked  at  the 
work  fell  to  wondering  why  Jack  Varne  should 
have  a  sweot-heart  and  I  none,  and  whether  it  was 
oulv  his  pretty  lace  or  something  in  our  ways  that 
made  all  girls  like  him  and  none  inc.  And  some- 
how I  felt  lonesome  and  unhappy,  and  couldn't 


Maybe  it  was  an  hour,  maybe  two,  that  I  sat  there 
before  I  heard  a  step  coming  over  the  grass,  and 
looking  up,  saw  the  girl  I  had  driven  over  from 
Baldwin-     ' 


tUmnuiering  out  something  about,  thiol 
might  like  I"  go  Ik  church  ami  would  not 
wav.  Thai  was  all  nonsense,  of  course, 
«ii'  the  steeple  in  lull  >ight,  but  it  gave  n 
v, anted,  1c.im-  to  be  with  her  again. 


away  on  me.  But  I  was  very  happy—  happier  than 
I  hud  ever  been  before  :  for  this  sweet  young  thing 
seemed  to  like  me,  was  frank  and  pleasant  with 
me,  and  found,  I  was  so  glad  to  think,  a  sort  of 
protection  that  site  liked  in  my  great  arm  where  her 


■    SsU.aMl,. 

igain  in  Hal 

r  on   the   hollow 


avrain  in  lluldw  in's  Wood-,  and  i- 


r  men  to  have 


re  for.     So  when 

iitrighl  for  joy 


mine  that    kept   i 
and   1|,.\V    |   n.uil    I 


was  at  work  !  Ib.w  happy 
ncal  anmng  the  other  girls, 
slovenly  when  they  were  til 


:  not  line  !   and  how  lull  of 

marry  me   in  lhe  autumn. 


been  more  than  usually  busy, 
for  it  was  near  the  end  of  June,  and  we  were  mak- 
ing fire-works  for  the  Fourth  of  July,  and  the  first 
I  had  seen  of  Annie  that  day  I  saw  in  the  great 
salesroom  whore  we  always  gathered  to  receive  our 
wages.  The  men  on  one  side,  the  girls  on  the  oth- 
er, pepping  up  to  the  great  desk  one  by  one  as  old 
Grillin.  the  clerk,  called  our  names.  I  looked  across 
the  Hue  of  girls'  faces,  and  saw  her  smiling  at  me, 
but  I  could  not  get  near  her.  Besides,  at  that  mo- 
ment, my  name  was  called  —  "  Hathron"  —  and  I 
stepped  up  to  the  desk.  Then,  for  the  lirst  time,  I 
noticed  that  old  Griffin  was  not  there.  A  nephew 
of  Mr.  Williams,  whose  name  I  knew  to  be  Richard 


laid  my  wages  before  me  that  his  hair  was  just  the 
color  of  Annie's. 

way  with  him  very  d it- 
er of  old  Griffin, 
to  the  girls  he  had  something 
ich  one,  instead  of  the  old  man's 
Sixpence  deducted  from  yours,  Jane  !" 


or.   "Y.ui  v.,  ■ 


three  days 

What  he  said  to  Annie  I  don't  know, ' 
like  a  wild  rose  from  brow  to  chin. 

Walking  borne  together 


Besides  her  daily  work  Annie  had  got  into  the 
way  of  doing  some  fine  sewing  and  embroidery  of 
evenings  for  a  Miss  Bedford,  a  beautiful  young  lady, 
who  lived  ia  the  prettiest  house  in  the  village,  and 


book  to  find  the  place  (she 


:■  ma?.  Ii.-.i   il.    I. hi    at    tli„L  i 


i  pew  behind 

□at  there  was 

e  what  might 


Annie   to  sh 
That  it  was  a 

'  ig  smile  as  nc  passeo.  us  on  iuc  cuur 

Miss  Kedford  looked  at  Annie  as  if  she  knew 
i  she  stepped  after  her  father 

image.      They  were  carriage 

—  and  the   old  folks   looked 

alse.     There  was  a  feud  be- 

factory,  and 

Willis 

d  cbat 

le  Williams  people  s 

Redfords  scowled  and  looked  haughty, 

'ere  all  fairly  shut  in  and  driven  away. 

Not  Mr.  Janes — he  was  too  gentlemanly ;  nor  Miss 

as  too  sweet.     The  feud  v  as  among 

The  farmers'  families  made  up  for 

though,  and  half  the  genteel  peo- 


■f  lie  laetorv  h 


t  church— a  dozen 
pell-mell  by  short 


t  -,  mil  to  lo.-e  theii'  dinners,  and  O 

inie  and  I  were  left,      .'she  v,.i>  waiting  1. 

in  her— a  thing  I  didn't  mean  to  do. 

1  leaned  against  the  iron  railing  nf  the 
yard,  wishing  1  was.  skuiuI  asleep  under  on 
green  mounds,  bul  only  looking  darker  and 


t  m  Monday  (  >',-;,■,  at  work  as  usual.      I 
of  July,  and  the  Fourth,  of  course,  i 
'"here  were  to  be  grand  c  ' 
thelhov     " 

3  of  Mr.  Richard  .lanes. 
younger  h 


get  my  sapper,  and  was 
I  saw  two 

figures  standing  wliispering  together.  I  felt  in  a 
moment  who  they  must  be,  and  got  close  enough  to 
hear  their  voices.  It  was  as  I  thought.  One  was 
Annie  May,  the  other  Richard  Janes.  They  were 
parting,  but  I  heard  enough  in  the  few  last  words : 
"Eleven  will  be  the  best  time ;  the  moon  will  be 
up  by  then.  I'll  have  the  carriage  waiting  under 
the  two  elms  in  Baldwin's  Woods.  Be  certain  about 


twelve.     Good-by — God  bless  you!" 
Not  another  word— but  I  knew  the  wl 

w.i-  going  oti'  with  Richard  Janes.  Sh 
loved  so.  The  one  of  all  the  world  who  h 
to  love  me.  I  heard  his  firm  tread  die 
heard  her  bght  footstep  rustle  over  the 

went  bai  k  myself  i<>  tin-  work-ioovn.  lor  ■ 
v.a.rk  until  aiate  hour  that  night,  1  walk- 
op  i...  the  young  i, 


Smil 


!  1]    I    .....      , 


'  Good  for  you,"  said  h 


The  Fourth  ain't  no 
is  is  goin'  cheap.    A 
good  load  in  it  too,  so  be  careful." 

I  counted  down  the  money  and  took  the  weapon 
away  with  me.  Do  you  want  to  know  what  I  meant 
to  do  with  it?  Shoot  myself  through  the  heart.   The 

swear  that  with  my  dying  breath. 

I  only  wanted  to  get  rid  of  my  tiresome  life. 
There  was  nothing  left  to  live  for— so  it  seemed  to 


Majrch  24,  '. 


HAEPER'S  WEEKLY. 


lear  young  lady,  try  to 

ratiful  Miss  Bedford  i 
,  and  clasped  her  han 


jnv  blind  folly.  I  reliiemh 
the  ll.dl'i.ids  and  the  Willi 
that  niv  Annie  had  only  bee 
to  meet  and  corresjiuud  wit! 
to  her  the  message  I   hud  t 


y  1k.iI  ;it  hand  by  t 
st  of  the  workmen  wei 
!  clutched  one  by  the  a 

'No,  thank  Heaven," 

ore  the  explosion  took 

.t  were  setting  the  las 
it  the  office — about  a  < 


I  panted.     '-I'll  bring  him 

ed  away.  They  were  |ilay- 
lding  with  the  one  engine 
■-.  tiui-. ,  ami  1  could  see  that 


e  dismissed  five  mir 

at  too,  I  guess,  but  t 
show-piece  in  the  i 


JAVA  COFFEE. 

Let  elderly  ladies  delight  if  they  can 
In  black,  green,  or  camomile  tea; 
am  firmly  persuaded  no  drink  for  a 
Can  be  equal  to  Java  Cof-/ee. 

A  cup  of  good  cu Hue   will   wind  a  mar 


Young  Hyson ;  but  when  wo  inquire 


was  piled  over  th 
must  be  inside — dead  we  supposed— and  I  he 
Borne  one  say  that  Miss  Redbud  was  going  fr 
one  swoon  into  another  at  the  Williams,  and  i 


Mr.  Janes  the  night  before. 

It  was  the  Fourth  of  July  ;  but  no  guns  we] 
fired  and  no  bells  rung  at  Baldwin.  All  the  pec 
pie  of  the  town  were  about  the  factory  helping  a 
best  they  could.  We  lifted  great  charred  logs  an 
heaps  of  boards  and  molten  cans,  and  at  last  on 
6topped.  "  Hush  !"  he  cried  ;  "for  tlod's  sake  no 
noise.  I  Ik  t  a  voice  !"  And  then  amidst  a  breath- 
less silence  we  heard  a  moan  under  our  feet. 

We  worked  with  a  will  now,  and  at  last  heard 


cried,  "Are  any  of  you  alive?"     And  some  one 
groaned,  "Yes." 

Black  with  smoke,  scorched  by  the  cinders  we 
handled,  we  went  at  it  again,  and  at  last  caino  to  a 
spot  where  the  beams  had  made  a  kind  of  pent- 
house. There,  jammed  together  and  half  suffocated, 
but  alive,  were  four  men.  And  such  a  yell  went 
up  as  mortal  ears  never  heard  before.  Four  saved  ! 
four  saved!  And  we  drew  them  out  andgave  them 
over  to  the  doctors.    Then  there  was  anoili.-i  ,|1(,ih 


ines  and  for  spirits  I've  greater  contempt 
m  for  Hyson,  Souchong,  and  Bohea; 
With  them  all  put  together  you'd  never  attempt 
To  rival  good  Java  Gof-fee. 

When  tonics  are  needed  throw  bark  to  the  dogs, 

ic  far  better  than  any  such  drugs 
lecoctiou  of  Java  Cot-fee. 


I  assure  you,  is  Java  Cot-fee. 
lut  coffee  is  commonly  coupled  with  1 


cried  that  they  could  see  him  under  some  bi 
It  was  a  dangerous  place  to  get  at ;  but  I  l 
not  stop  for  that.  I  forced  myself  into  the  ni 
aperture,  and  set  to  work.     I  called,  but  ther 

great  beam  across  bis  chest.  His  beautiful  g 
hair  and  beard  were  singed  and  scorched,  an 
of  his  hands  was  blistered.  I  touched  hiin 
screamed  in  his  ears,  but  they  were  deaf  to  m 
got  the  log  oil'  -omi-lh.w-,  and  dragged  him  t 
light,  and  then  I  had  help  enough.     They  took 


And  God  bless  \ 


Oh,  the  mercy  of  the  good  Lord— think  of  it !  Of 
the  whole  not  one  was  killed.     There  were  burns, 

.nrn!  la-.,!,.  i>   limb-,  and   i>la<..k  eye:..  I  mi:  [hen:  v.--.  ri,, 

death  ;  and  soon  I  saw  Richard  Janes— pale  andfaint 
but  out  of  danger—standing  before  me.  I  couldn't 
believe  God  had  been  so  good  to  me. 

Then  that  old  white-haired  doctor  mounted  on  a 
pile  of  burned  logs  and  lifted  his  hat,  and  there  were 
three  such  cheer-,  as  ueie  never  heard  before,  and  a 
dozen  boys  sped  in  to  Baldwin  to  vim; the  joy-bells: 
and  women  came  crying  to  thank  me  for  helping  to 
save  their  dear  ones— so  thai  ioi  shame  I  went,  and 
bid  myself  in   Baldwin's  Woods  and  cried,  with  my 


our  nex'-room  neighbor  —  shows  me  something 
wrapped  up  in  flannel,  all  pink  and  creasy,  and 
very  snuffly,  as  though  it  wanted  its  nose  blowing; 
which  couldn't  be  expected,  for  it  hadn't  got  any  to 

"Ain't  it  a  little  beauty?"  she  says. 
Well,  I  couldn't  see  as  it  was ;  but  I  didn't  like  to 
say  so,  Tor  I  knew  my  wifo  Polly  had  been  rather 
reckoning  on  what  she  said  we  ought  to  have  had 
lore'n  a  year  ago ;  so  I  didn't  like  to  disappoint 
er,  for  I  knew  she  lay  listenin'  in  the.nex'  room. 
Polly  always  said  there  never  was  such  a  baby  as 


dull  now;  and  when  at  home  of  a  ] 
think  how  my  mates  would  laugh  to 
ling  the  little  " ' 


when  I'm 
•oracious  un  in  my  life :  it  would  ha 
-nose,  lip,  any  wherea— in  a  minute. 
One  day,  when  it  was  about  nine  n 


me  a-hand- 

pushed  into 

if  ever  I  see  such  a 


.  Polly's 


;was  coming,  though  I  dared 

I  I         lib  thing  suddenly  start- 

ed, stared  wildly  an  instant,  and  then  it  was  all  over. 
My  hand  warn't  bad  any  more  that  week;  for  it 
.,.!,.  .).''  inv  Nine  l"  try  ami  .beer  up  my  poor  heart- 
:oken  lass.  She  did  take  on  dreadful,  night  and 
iv,  night  and  day,  till  we  buried  it ;  and  then  she 
emed  to  take  quite  a  change,  and  begged  of  me  to 
rgive  what  she  called  her  selfishness,  and  wiped 


y  till  the 


head  hidden  in  my  arms,  on  t 

Then  somebody  came  Boftlj 
beside  me,  and  bent  over  me, 
and  smoke-stained  as  I  was,  i 
and  only  one  of  all  the  work 

dear  that  I  am  so  proud  of!' 


i  that-and 


and  they  will  be  married  after  all.     They  i 
fond  of  each  other,  Seth— as  fond  as  you  and  1 
And  then  I  stood  up  and  put  her  gently  from  me, 


We  buried  the  little  one  on  the  Sunday,  and  on 
the  Monday  morning  I  was  clapped  on  to  a  job  that 
I  didn't  much  relish,  for  it  was  the  rebricking  of  a 
sewer  that  ran  down  one  of  the  main  streets,  quite 
fifty  feet  underground. 

Arter  two  years  in  London  I'd  seen  some  change, 
but  this  was  my  first  visit  to  the  bowels  of  the  earth. 
I'd  worked  on  drains  down  in  the  country,  but  not 
in.  such  a  concern  as  this :  why  a  Lifeguard  might 
have  walked  down  it  easy ;  so  that  there  was  plenty 
of  room  to  work.  But  then,  mind  you,  it  ain't  pleas- 
ant work ;  there  you  go,  down  ladder  after  ladder, 
past  gas-pipes  and  water-pipes,  and  down  and  down, 
till  you  get  to  the  stage  stretched  across  the  part 
you  are  at  work  on,  with  the  daylight  so  high  up, 
as  seen  through  boards,  and  scaffolds,  and  ladders, 
that  it's  no  use  to  you  who  are  working  by  the  light 
of  flaring  gas.    There  in  front,  of  you  is  the  dark 


e  .„lil,„  Ihe  rattling  o'  Ibeearll 
upon  a  little  coffin,  thai  som 
poii  my  bright  t 


ays  brightened  up  when  I  went  back, 
do  such  a  man  ov  mo  as  I  felt  I  was,  for 
git  to  make  any  man  vain  to  bo  thought 
And  then  I  thought  how  dull  she'd  be, 
ind  she'd  he  o'  looking  at  the  drawer 


as  I  was  glad  of  it, 
gang  coming  on  to 
just  as  well  have  t 
down,  and  had  jest 


light,  though  it  might 


hit  and  jarred 

ly  after  what  seemed 

the  head,  and,  before  I 


n  I  heard  something  hilling  :<  ■■■  i 

boards  up'ords  ;  and  then  direct 

brick  caught  mo  oi 


confused  and  half-stunned  that  I  let  it  go  under 
again,  and  had  been  carried  over  so  fur  before,  hall- 
drowned,  I  gained  my  legs  and  leaned,  panting  and 
blinded,  up  against  the  slimy  wall. 

suppose,  shuddering  and  horrified,  with  the  thick 
darkness  all  around,  the  slimy,  muddy  bricks  against 
my  hands,  the  cold,  rushing  water  beneath  me,  and 
my  mind  in  that  confused  state  that. for  a  few  min- 
utes longer  I  didn't  know  what  I  was  going  to  do 
next,  and  wanted  to  persuade  myself  that;  il.  was  all 
a  dream,  and  I  should  wake  up  directly. 

All  at  once,  though,  I  gave  a  jump,  and,  instead 
o'  being  cold  with  the  water  dripping  from  mo,  I 
turned  all  hot  and  burning,  and  then  again  cold  and 
1  felt  something  crawling  on  my 


My  head  turned  hot  and  my  temples  throbbed 
•ith  the  thought.  I?  I  went  the  wrong  way  I 
aould  be  lost— lost  in  this  horrible  darkness— to 
nk  at  last  into  the  foul,  black  stream,  to  be  drown- 


ing: I  shrieked  out  wildly,  i 

in:/  through  the  sewer,  sour 
till  it  faded  away.-  But  onct 
of  it,  and  persuaded  myself 


it  be  lurking  down  1 
thick  darkness  com* 


j  th.8  rata.    .What  would  J 


en  for  a  stout  stick  as  a  defense  against  ; 

I  groped  my  way  on,  feeling  convinced  t 

should  he  rigid  if  I  crawled  down  stream,  w 

""  "     cflection  would  have  told  me  that  up  e 

>e  the  right  way,  for  I  must  have  been 

by  the  vftter.     But  I  could  not  reflet 


t..ih  .h,i 


1  thought  come  upon 
-1  again  I  tried  to  lean  up 


of  an  hour,  when 
that  I  was  going 


dozens  upon  dozens  of  drains,  I  dot 
to  creep  up  ono,  and  I  did. 

P'raps  you  won't  think  it  strange  as  I  dream  and 

I  crawled  on,  and  on,  and  on,  in  the  hopes  that 
tho  place  I  was  in  would  lead  under  one  of  the  street 
gratings,  and  I  kept  staring  uhead  in  tho  hopes 
of  catching  a  gleam  of  light,  till  at  last  the  place 
seemed  ao  tight  that  I  dared  go  no  further  for  fear 
of  being  fixed  in.     So  I  began  to  back  very  slowly, 


ii  beloio  me;  and 


by  squeezing  him,  when  the  c 
not  till  iny  face  wii  i  bitten  and  running  with  blood. 
At  last,  ha'f  dead,  I  tried  to  back  out,  for  tho 
place  seemed  to  stifle  me;  and  I  pushed  myself 
back  a  little  way,  and  then  I  was  stopped,  for  the 
skirts  of  my  jacket  filled  up  what  little  space  had 
been  left,  and  I  felt  that  I  was  wedged  in,  stuck  fast. 

The  hot  blood  seemed  to  gush  into  my  eyes;  I  felt 

half-suffocated;  and  to  add  to  my  sufferings  a  rut, 
that  felt  itself  as  it  were  penned  up,  fastened  upon 
my  lip.    It  was  if    '    "  ' 


t  bite,  however,  for  h 


upon  the  \  ii-ioiis  hea-t,  and  it  was  dead. 

I  made  one  mure  struggle,  but  could  not  move, 
was  eo  knocked  up ;  and  then  I  fainted.  • 

a  regular  tramp,  tramp,  of  some  one  walking  ovr 
my  head,  and  I  gave  a  long  yell  for  help;  wher 
to  my  great  joy,  the  step  I  "  ' 


again,   and  i 


r  beard  ii 


It  seems  I  had  got  within  a  few  yards  of  a  grat- 
ing which  was  an  end  o'  the  drain,  and  the  close 
quarters  made  the  rats  bo  .fierce.  The  policeman 
heard  my  shriek,  and  had  listened  at  the  grating, 
and  then  got  help ;  but  he  was  only  laughed  at,  fur 


ngged;   tvhen  a  couple. 
ttle  un  offered  to  go  down  back'ards, 
ad  came  out  directly  after,  saying  th 
:el  a  man's  head  with  his  toes. 
That  policeman  has  had  many  a  glas 
enso  since,  and  I  hope  he'll  have  a  i 


say,    "you're  right,  my 


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Vol.  X.— No.  483.] 


NEW  YORK,  SATURDAY,  MARCH  31,  1866 


|,],i.™l  in  tlio  Hall  of 

the  Cooper  Institute,  on  riEKItE  CAItME.— [I'iiotooraJ'Iiid 

evening  of  Tuesday, 


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villi    ]_>r|,U,y    Kava.s  V,H     to     vi-it    this 


r.ui.']an.l  iiiiu.lo  n 

now  traveling  in 

i  West,  lln-y  Int.ly  liaviii;;  taken  part  in  a  tour- 
ment  at  Memphis,  Tennessee.  The  friends  of 
r.  Kobebtb  say  that  on  hiu  return  to  New  York 


DtfDLEt  KAyAKAGH.-CPj 


rior  in   his  speeialt 

willing  to  engaga 

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HAKPER'S  WEEKLY. 


[Makch  31,  1866. 


Joseph  Dion,  of  Mon 
defied  any  man  living 
of  the  above  specialties, 
aside,     air.  Roberts  i 

of  his  age,  and  is  nor  a  I 


r  li ■■;<(.  phcyrr-  tin-  opportunity 

„.  Kii-'ii-h,  brcmli,  and  Ai.ht- 
hisit  niiiv  be  iulViT.il  lli-'l  ■\Ir- 
nccopt   the  .liatl.ii^os   of  Mr. 

.".I'j.'.Vlu-'lW-  - r»l'l 


HARPER'S  WEEKLY. 

Saturdat,  March  81,  1866. 


SOUTHEBN  SENTIMENT. 
T.  MONROE,  of  New  Or 


mi 

pied  by  the  Union  forces,  ond  his  conduct  was 
such  that  he  was  imprisoned  by  military  au- 
thority. At  the  late  election  for  Mayor  he  was 
the  successful  candidate,  and  with  him  three 
gentlemen  who  were  of  the  same  sympathy 
were  elected  for  three  of  the  four  Recorder- 
hJrm  of  the  city.  Governor  Wells,  of  Lou- 
isiana, whose  Unionism  has  been  latterly  of  a 
strictly  "Southern"  character,  is  yet  unwilling 
to  authorize  Mr.  Monroe  to  asBume  office. 
Mr.  Kennedy,  the  retiring  Mayor,  is  so  skep- 
tical of  the  loyalty  of  Mr.  Monroe  that  he  also 


has   fclcen 


I'r.-utviil    ''»■ 


President  is  rep 

ied  that  the  facts  were  unk) 
.■  Inn  deebned  h.>  interfere. 


with  New  Orleai 
Union  army  tells 
man  would  be  Baft 
ed  States  forces 


lithfnl 


feol  i 


t  tho  life  of  no  Un 


'   [hi;   (lovcril 


State  should  the  mill 
roent  he  relaxed.  And  these  are  not  oxcer 
tlonal  witnesses.  Now  the  men  whose  condiu 
is  such  as  to  occasion  these  apprehensions  nv 
those  who  have  elected  Mr.  Monroe  Mayoi 
They  are  those  whoso  sympathizers  elsowhev 
elected  Mr.  Humphreys,  an  unpardoned  re.h< 
isippi,  and  Mr.  Sti 


nd  chic 


'tho  i 


The 


purport 


]  Crand  dunes,  refuse  to  net. 
1    indictments   aguiusi    mur- 


elligen 


"  acquiescence."  Nobody  indeed  expects  de- 
feated men  to  confess  that  they  were  wrong,  o; 
to  feel  a  profound  affection  for  a  power  agains 
which  they  have  ineffectually  struggled.  Bu 
when  they  declare  that  they  have  submitte> 
and  acquiesce  in  the  decision  of  the- war,  the 
will  not  be  surprised,  and  they  have  no  right  t 


niry 


iie.-tly  n » ■  ■ ; I  | ■ : ' '■ 


What  kind  o 
the  persons 
ind  of  sub 
officers  an. 


with  the  G> 

his  suit  to  the  highest  court,  and  loses  it,  does 

not  think  he  was  wrong  in  bringing  the  suit, 

but  he  pays  the  damages  and  yields  to  the  law. 

That  is  all  that  is  asked  of  the  late  ihsur- 

>  act  as  if  jndg- 


eypm 


or,    ,,! p 


.,■11    i 


i  which  they  point 
ught  to 


.nd  destroy  tho  very 

The  people  of  the  Southern  Sti 
nderstand  that  the  war  was  just  as  earnest  10 
s  as  it  was  to  them  ;  that  there  is  not  the  least 
indictiveness  of  feeling  upon  the  part  of  the 
jyal  people  of  the  country,  but,  on  the  contrary, 

very  hearty  desire  of  sincere  union  and  en- 
uring pcoco ;  that  there  are  no  foolish  expect- 
tions  of  an  affected  love  of  the  National  Gov- 


s  toward  our  Southern  fel 

'.ens,  whatever  the  papers  and   pollti< 
»  deluded  fhern    through   the  war  may 


The  imbecility  of  the  Cop- 


nd    -nni-rebel 


1  reasonable  reorganiza' 
doubts,  if  he  listens  1 
teadily  deceived  1 


|. .r.[.  lie  will 


:     aild     NiniV     I 


mi'  is  not    broken  ;    and  \\ 


e  spring,  show  l 


I  111'-    ClINIl 

ion  in  tho  late  insurgent  States  are  truly  wise, 
if  they  wish  the  country  to  believe  in  their  ac- 
quiescence, they  will  abandon  their  dog-in-the- 
manger  policy,  and  prove  that  they  were  hon- 
est in  the  war  by  honestly  accepting  the  judg- 
ment to  which  they  appealed. 


Tin;  rlVTL  RICJHT8  BILL. 


Tin,  freedom  of  a  large  nun 
habitants  of  the  United  States, 
as  slaves,  was  recognized  and  co 
Emancipatio